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Thank you. I really needed to hear that right now. I know it's true, but it helps remind me that I'm doing the right thing morally with something and not just the thing that's the right thing as in what I think I need to do for myself. It's helping at least to give me a momentary sense of...

I feel kind of bad about admitting it, but I have significant doubts about stuff like Eucharistic hosts that literally turn into human flesh with DNA and/or blood. Oddly enough, I am a strong believer in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. A lot of these miracles just seem hard to...

Huh? I don't get it.

John Shelby Spong - Wikipedia

Anal sex with men is no more of a risk factor for cancer in men than anal sex with women is for women, and even oral sex and intercourse are risk factors for HPV (Which most people have laying dormant), which can develop into cancer (In different areas, obviously). So is eating foods cooked on...

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I think what I believe *is* the Catholic faith. Rome will catch up with me eventually. ;) I'm kidding... kind of. However, I do think the long arc trajectory of the Church's history is progressive, and that we haven't hit the top of the divine ladder just yet. That's by no means an...

Link: Vatican hosts world's leading cosmologists to bring together faith and science

I wish I had a parish like that near me! I have to admit, the liturgy stuff would bother me (I tend to like a very precise formal high-church liturgy with incense and bells), but the rest of it sounds like great. :) Although, that said, I do like some of the Dan Schutte songs. I grew up with...

Thank you. Whether or not it's good theology, I think with my background, something in my gut is always going to make me feel like the prayers of a priest might carry a little extra weight with God relative to the prayers of a lay person. So, reading that a priest is praying for me is...

Have you considered that conservative or radically traditional Catholicism may also be it's own form of "wish fulfillment" in the same way that you imply Liberal Catholicism is? For example, and I'll try to be vague and hypothetical so we don't get bogged down into anything too specific, think...

Honestly, I'm not sure. I know for years there was a big debate over whether or not I qualified as a Catholic. It drove me nuts. I think I've repressed a lot of those memories. ;) There were some good things about it, too, though, obviously, or I wouldn't be here on TLT today talking to a...

I would be in favor of voicesthatcarry being grandfathered (Is that a sexist term? Grandmothered? Grandpersoned?) in as a full member in recognition of her immense contributions to this forum past and present, and its restoration as an active community. She fits in very well here and certainly...

Popes serve until they either die or resign. When a Pope dies or resigns, the College of Cardinals, which is a group of around 120 very senior clergy from around the world who are given the title of Cardinal, gather together at the Vatican in Rome to pray for guidance and to vote on a new Pope...

Upon reflection, because I want to make sure I don't just assume people know things that provide context for the above, I should mention that many Catholics opposed Hitler strongly. Saint Maxillian Kolbe, a Catholic priest, was actually made a prisoner in a Nazi death camp, and volunteered to...