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I don't stop by often these days, but since things in the Church have been so much worse this year (or at least, we have been hearing more this year) I drop in to read every so often. Davidnic, thank you for posting this article. It was very helpful. I've always loved St Thomas More, but never...

Thanks Tallguy :) I'm probably only back for one day haha

Browsing OBOB today because I'm sick at home and I'm very pleased to see your two very interesting threads Gwen!:thumbsup: These are the two paragraphs immediately following 26: This is what immediately follows 74: First up he is talking only to married couples in these paragraphs...

Sayre, the rules for Latin Rite Catholics are very simple because we have been set the minimum required practice. Anything you do above minimum is great and should be decided with your confessor, pastor or spiritual director. Latin Rite Catholics FAST (ie eat one meal and two half meals -no...

What kind of answers do you need OP? There are plenty of testimonies out there like this of conversions to pentecostal churches. The one thing that these testimonies tend to have in common is a lack of knowledge of Catholic beliefs and practices. It's always a good thing when someone begins to...

It seems likely she had been baptised as an infant and that when she says she knew water baptism wasn't possible she actually means she knew a second baptism wasn't possible. Catholics believe you can only be baptised once.

I agree with you. I am not particularly suspicious about the event, or about the patient. But it's very convenient for the press that homosexuality was brought up at all and I wonder if this would be a story at all if the patient had been a remarried Catholic man.

I know that there are many difficulties which come with homosexuality when you're Catholic. But in the circumstances described in the OP homosexuality doesn't seem to pose any more of a problem than a contracepting woman or a man married to his second wife while his first wife is still living.

Around here there don't seem to be many questions asked.

I see what you're saying. :) I've seen it called annoiting of the sick, but I didn't know that extreme unction is out now. Thanks. We can't KNOW that lack of contrition is the reason the sacraments were refused, but I can't see any other plausible reason. Like a previous poster said, we won't...

I don't think so. There are so many Catholics who don't believe they should have to change their lifestyle in response to Christ. These Catholics have fronted up to Church for baptisms, confirmations, and weddings and received communion without worrying about whether or not they are in a state...

There has to be more to this story. Priests are not allowed to refuse to hear a confession, they can refuse absolution though. I know you have to be in a state of grace to receive communion, do you likewise need to be in a state of grace to receive extreme unction?

How lovely. I hope that in some small way your bumper sticker brings hope to others too. I love Pope Francis. We are lucky to have him.

Did you read the note they put in the bag? I thought it was pretty mild. Simply "we're Catholic so could you consider filling this script elsewhere."

I think the chemist is happy to sell it to those whoop use it as medication not contraception. I quite like the chemist's approach. He will provide it without questioning the customer, but asks that customers respect his beliefs and go elsewhere if they are contracepting. Inoffensive but effective.

The PM comes across as skirting the issue. I don't think he is criticising the chemist so much as avoiding saying anything much at all. He is hated for his association with the Church and I think his comments are an attempt not to get his personal beliefs involved. His political beliefs are...

I think it's pretty much a non-issue here. I had a quick google but the only current thing I could find was about pay equity (particularly for women.)

The economy doesn't work like that. There are a huge number of factors you have left out. Like Mike said I live in Australia with a minimum wage rate of $16.37 (higher than the US) and our unemployment rate is 6% (lower than the US).

AMDG the answer is that it doesn't price people out of the job market. You acknowledge that people who work low paid jobs are often vulnerable, so it's not just teens doing these jobs before they 'move up' to better things? Why should the vulnerable not be able to support themselves through...

But even if those two things were true, what's so bad about that? Is it so bad for a person to choose a retail job over a career? And shouldn't we pay as much as things are really worth?