He failed right out of the starting gate with this statement.Francis Macomber said:I'd say that doesn't make you a bad Catholic because I don't think you can actually consider yourself a Catholic with thoughts like this. It's like saying you're Christian but you worship the Devil or something. It's incongruent.2000AgPhD said:For me, I equate the Church with the current pope, just as I equate our government with the party in control. I did not support our government when the socialists were in charge, and I do not support the Church with the current socialist in charge. I would rather give my money directly to causes I support than to the Church when it will just flow to Catholic Charities or whatever left-wing group du jour they want to funnel money to. If that makes me a bad Catholic, albeit a lapsed one, I am content with that. I still have faith, but it does not necessarily reside in the Catholic Church, or the current Pontiff, right now.B-1 83 said:This. The clergy is not the faith.agracer said:go for communion, not the Pope.2000AgPhD said:
As a lapsed Catholic, I just may start going to church again if they bring in somebody that is not a hard core leftist. JP II has always been my exemplar of what a Pope should be.
The ignorant Catholic bashing on these threads never ceases to amaze…..
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