We are progressive Catholics and those that would deem so. We welcome everyone as Christ would. We are embracing of other religions and other cultures. That is how I wanted this forum to be.
I love you Jason...let's lift one for this forum that has vanquished it's founders, changed it's leadership (a few times) and flourished as an important forum for the disenfranchised and the "empowered".
We should work to have gay marriage accepted in the Church. In fact, I do not know if there is a debate in hand: Progressive Catholics must support gay marriage as couples must participate in the sacrament of marriage.
"Ecclesia catholica semper in reformatione"
yes, we would dare to shape something according to its essential being.
As the Church Council in 1414 calls for (way before VII):
"reform in faith and practice, in head and members."
By keeping your eyes on Christ. He will know and He accepts you.
But you must consider how the Church provides for you. You must know that you are an agent of change in your Church...that you do not have to accept the tragedies and miscalculations of the Church in your faith formation. No...
woio hoo!! glory be! There was already a provision. Does it take a grad/PhD student to say something scintilating here...or meaningful?
No, you need your, whatever to carry through.
THANKS OBOB!!
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Benedict views engagement with the modern world as a dead end. He refers to reform as heresy and will not descipline his hierarchy...discipline is for those who care for the poor (Sobrino) and to not acknowledge the martyrdom of an archbishop (Romero).