Is there still a place for Catholics on Catholica? (Main Forum)

by judith, Walloon Australia, Thursday, July 12, 2012, 21:32 (312 days ago) @ CathyT

Cathy, the good that I still find in Catholicism is the hard work being done by priests and other religious today.

These people are quietly going about God's work and not taking too much notice of Rome, just like the rest of us, except that many of them have to keep looking over their shoulders for the Temple Police element.

I am amazed at the new spiritualities coming forth in Christian people, not just Catholic, and these are enriching my personal faith.

So, despite invitations from my local Lutheran parish to join them, I prefer to stay and stir Catholics.

Sadly. a great deal of Church history reflects very badly on our leaders, and some horrible things have been done to good people supposedly in the name of the one true and holy church. Too many of our buildings have grown out of the blood, sweat and tears of our people who made heroic sacrifices to build churches, but were not allowed to build church. Too many good people have been turned away and told they were not worthy to come to share in the Eucharist because circumstances in their lives were not in line with the Church's teaching. Far too many children have been harmed, doubly so, by those in whom we trusted.

My dream is to see the Roman Catholic Church disappear and be replaced by the catholic - universal and all-embracing - church dedicated to learning and following the teachings of Jesus, recognizing and accepting that all are God's people and only He has the right to cast anyone aside, regardless of their conduct.

J A Holznagel