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  1. RhetorTheo

    Now I've read it all...

    If he was born and baptized RC, would it be fair to say Hinn is still RC? (And Madonna, too, for that matter?)
  2. RhetorTheo

    Islam and child brides

    http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-08-03-voa10.cfm "If a girl doesn't marry at an early age, she'll sleep with many men. Nobody would want to marry her later," said Maiga, 55. Such marriages, he said, keep girls from "adventures." He married his first wife when she was 11. He forced his...
  3. RhetorTheo

    Islam and child brides

    Yes, they still do it. In Michigan, I remember reading a story about a muslim whose young (11-13) year old wife was pregnant and in the hospital. The hospital workers turned him in. The story was from 1998, either in the Detroit Free Press or News.
  4. RhetorTheo

    Does anyone know about Family Law?

    I'm not giving legal advice, just posting this I saw on the net, not saying it's true or not true: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/fam08.htm This is as good a time as any to get the CS payments fixed and change custody rights. If the court decree said that she cannot interfere with the...
  5. RhetorTheo

    Catholic Church Founded in 314 A.D.??

    The Church is joined to those baptized but who don't profess the full Catholic faith or lack full communion with Rome. Those who believe in Christ and were properly baptized are in some kind of communion with the Catholic Church.
  6. RhetorTheo

    Catholic Church Founded in 314 A.D.??

    Do you disagree that the catholic church includes the Protestants?
  7. RhetorTheo

    I love my "NeoCath" brothers and sisters

    Neocath is a play on neocon. Neocon is a cuss word on the far left, and it often has an anti-semitic air to it. Neocon refers to recent converts to consevatism from liberalism, hence the "neo." But "neocath" makes no sense. Other than, of course, to smear one group with the...
  8. RhetorTheo

    Catholic Church Founded in 314 A.D.??

    I think by "Catholic Protestant" they mean those Protestants who are part of the universal church. (Much in the way some here use "Protestant" to refer to churches that are not protesting the Catholic Church, such as the Baptists.) The Mormons would not be catholic, by this definition, but...
  9. RhetorTheo

    Catholic Church Founded in 314 A.D.??

    Once you concede that the Protestants are mystically part of the Church referred to the in the Bible (the one that will not fail), then you have conceded everything. That's the Protestant argument: the greater catholic Church will not fail, but large parts of it (eg, RCC) can fail.
  10. RhetorTheo

    knock off handbags

    They are both illegal, but minor violations of the law.
  11. RhetorTheo

    knock off handbags

    Is it a sin to knowingly drive 5 MPH over the speed limit?
  12. RhetorTheo

    Canadian gov't "cannot protect" churches refusing to perform "gay marriage"

    I don't understand why people live in Massachusetts. I guess I now have to question why people live in Canada. Time to move south, people.
  13. RhetorTheo

    The Other Catholics: A Short Guide to the Eastern Catholic Churches

    Thanks for the information, that is not surprising. We also have a deacon who had been Orthodox. I should have mentioned that they were active in the Melkite church for decades before becoming priests. And it is inappropriate to switch rites for the purpose of becoming a married priest as...
  14. RhetorTheo

    Apologies from the Church - a good idea?

    Generally, no. But the Pope will decide what is best.
  15. RhetorTheo

    The Other Catholics: A Short Guide to the Eastern Catholic Churches

    I believe that both of my priests were latins at first. And a man who always wanted to be a priest according to his wife, was a latin before marrying her and coming to our church. He is now a subdeacon, so I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes a priest.
  16. RhetorTheo

    Melkite Church

    Now that I have more than 20 seconds to read and post... Yes, the filoque is of course not stated. It may be best if you don't say anything at all during the liturgy, and just hold a missal and listen to the words. Lip sync if you feel it's necessary. I found it very difficult to follow at...
  17. RhetorTheo

    Melkite Church

    At my church, there are maybe 20% Roman Catholics there, and they will kneel and it's okay. Normally, you do not kneel. You just follow what everybody else is doing. You cross from right to left instead of left to right, but it's okay if you do it the Roman way. When going up for communion...
  18. RhetorTheo

    Contraception

    I agree with each thing you said, but I suspect we mean different things by each of those sentences. And the way that "open to life," "grave reasons," "selfishness," etc. are used in contradictory ways depending upon whether the persons being spoke of are ABCers or NFPers makes me wonder if...
  19. RhetorTheo

    Contraception

    No, I'm only disputing the twisting of the various requirements, such as "open to life" and "grave reasons," to say that it's okay to use it for the same reasons ABC'ers use ABC, that is, to subordinate the primary end of the marital act to other ends. (In fact, to reject the primary end and to...
  20. RhetorTheo

    Contraception

    While Charlie's views may well be the natural and inevitable result of the NFP mentality, I continue to disagree with your definitions of "open to life" and "willing to accept God's plan for their parenthood."
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