I WILL BE THE END OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
I went to Catholic school in Colorado. I received 4 of the 7 sacraments under the archdiocese of Denver. I work daily to understand the principles, incorporate the teachings, and justify the contradictions involved in growing up Catholic.
When leaders in the church work to exclude those who don't inflexibly follow the dogma out of Rome, they're done. Plain and simple, it is the right of clergy to lead as they see fit: but this course will cause the church in the U.S. to wither away -- as it has begun to do.
Colorado Bishop: Bar communion for abortion-rights voters
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Funny how they don't deny communion to people who vote for George W., who is quite the fan of the death penalty. Which I understand the Catholic church isn't on board with either.
A friend of mine in Connecticut went to church with his mother on Mother's Day (he lives out of town) and the sermon contained similar statements. This friend of mine is a supporter of many of the ideas that the Catholic church seems to want to extricate from it's ranks, and there he was, at church with his mother, being forced to take a political stand in front of his whole community and bring 'scandal' to his mother, on Mother's Day.
He ended up going for communion, but he was saddened that apparently the Catholic church doesn't want him as a member, despite the fact that he would like to remain one. After service he told his parents his views and his decision. He's quite disappointed in the church, as I was when I heard this announcement.
My family had a major departure from the church when my father was a boy (a priest told him his mother should be dead and is a sinner for defying the will of God. What did she do? Have a radical masectomy to remove breast cancer.) Although I did get married in the church, any participation was out of respect for my grandparents, not out of through and through belief.
While this comes as no surprise to me, I'd had a (fools?) hope that maybe the church would become more progressive. Guess I was wrong. Time to conduct a survey of my local Protestant churches, huh? :^)
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