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Are you even Catholic? Birth control is against church teaching. Should that even need to be mentioned to an alleged Catholic? Prenatal care and adoption services are offered to moms for FREE through Catholic Charities. There are families ready and waiting to adopt healthy babies delivered...

As Catholics, we believe that sin has different levels of magnitude. Killing babies is pretty high upon the list of evil. I cannot think of another more egregious. I think that pretty well covers how one should make their choice. No secular political party is going to align totally with our...

It's a self-fulfilling reality. Offering confessions "by appointment only" is pathetic, and I would report him to the bishop. Confession should be offered daily and failure to do that is failing to do your job as a priest.

My way of being spanked as a kid was a good solid sting on the behind. It works. Nobody in their right mind thinks that a beating or a black eye is "corporal punishment." That's flat out abuse. Blurring those lines is what has made America fearful of even disciplining their children. Now...

Agreed. The circular bible-only logic has to at some point present a logic problem. To be honest, as a former Evangelical myself, I can tell you that Church history isn't taught in any form whatsoever in typical mainline Evangelical churches. I think that's for obvious reasons...

Hi there. I'm going to ignore the other responses (some of which are great and some of which I don't agree with) and respond to you in my own way. I hope that it is helpful. I was not raised Catholic. I was raised Baptist, and I chose to come fully into the Church 5 years ago, based on many...

But why REST? You guys are missing the importance of words. It does not imply being animate or conscious. It implies being asleep.

I dunno, I don't want to rest in peace. I want to be at peace in Christ, with Christ, with the Saints and angels in heaven. I hereby will no longer use the term "rest in peace." It just doesn't seem consistent with our beliefs, with my beliefs.

I get why many evangelical protestants might say this, because the belief of many is that the dead are "sleeping" until Christ comes again. But, does the Catholic Church teach this? I don't think so.... While we don't necessarily know or understand how much time each person might spend in...

Sickening.

Things like this happen and we're "racists" for wanting to profile young muslim men in airports. Our Greek Orthodox Christians cannot re-build their destroyed church at ground zero, but muslims have Obama supporting them building a mosque. It's like the world has gone nuts.

It's an Aetna plan, self-insured through a big school district. The other option is keep the "lower" rate, but have deductibles near $3,000 annually (for one person) and no guarantee co-pay (only a percentage), and a limited network.

To the OP: Would you like some whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine with that cheese? Seriously, this is silly and trivial.

My healthcare premiums are going up by 150% this year thanks to this new legislation. Thanks Obama.

This Catholic voted against Obama in the first place. I've never seen such an egotistical manipulator in the whitehouse. I'm hoping for a gridlock congress so we can at least shut him down for the last two years of his presidency. Then again, he seems to fancy himself Emperor of America, so...

Hmm... Sometimes music directors aren't Catholic... maybe it was an honest mistake, but that seems unlikely.

This seems like nitpicking. Find something more important to focus on.

It's not appropriate for me to debate Catholic beliefs here, but I will say "excommunication" is only canonically legal as a method to bring about repentance (source). If you have a repentant sinner at your door, always remember Christ's sacrifice for our sin. This is the basis of all forms of...

I found it, I just have never actually heard of one. On the other hand, I've had the pleasure of encountering Cardinal DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in-person maybe 12 or more times during my 5 short years as a Catholic! About 3-4 of those times I spoke with him personally...

I had to google to find out what episcopi vagantes meant. I guess I've never encountered one...