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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: February 4, 2024, 6:04 pm
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The teaching of the Catholic Church will remain constant on the
subject of homosexuality. St. Paul was right. This present Pope
or anti-Pope's blessing is not a change in teaching by means of
"ex cathedra", as was the dogma of the Assumption in 1950 or the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception of 1854, to be believed by
all Catholics.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: February 4, 2024, 11:08 pm
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I do know that, Leslie, we have spoken several times before
about the difference between dogma and ex cathedra statements
from a Pope. He is entitled to express his opinion, as are you.
We don't know what the Church will do in the future, the wheels
of Rome grind slowly as always. However, the general overhaul
since the 1980s is impressive, one cannot accuse the Catholic
Church of not doing its best to put its house in order. It is a
far more compassionate church than it was.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: February 14, 2024, 4:21 pm
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During the campaign, while driving through my pastoral region, I
saw a pro-euthanasia billboard with the following message: "My
Life, my Death, my Choice." Immediately, I thought of St. Paul's
diametrically opposite remark in his Letter to the Romans: "We
do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we
live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so
then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." I
do believe that in regard to the issue of assisted suicide, it
comes down to this: Did the billboard get it right, or did St.
Paul? Does my life belong to me, or is it a gift from God? Is my
death a matter of my personal choice, or is it under God's
providence and at his disposal?
Bishop Robert Barron.
That is the opposite of Trudeau's MAID (Medically Assisted Aid
in Dying) which we have in Canada today. Made law during the
current eight years of Trudeau's mismanagement. He now wants to
bring MAID to the mentally ill.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: February 15, 2024, 5:16 am
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I am worried about the lack of apologetics today on Catholic
teaching. We don't have any officially. Especially when I see a
lack of Faith in my own children. They don't go to church, or do
so infrequently. One of them reads about angels in books by Kyle
Gray. I don't think he is Catholic but can't find out much about
him as a person. Like him I believe in guardian angels, and I
believe much more - but he stops there.
One of my grandchildren is reading an authentic book he chose
from my 'library' about the history of the Catholic Church and
the good it has done to society. I will see Matthew on Family
Day, next Monday, when we treat him to a meal at the Keg. We
have reservations for 5 p.m.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: February 15, 2024, 7:03 am
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Why worry about it? Leave it to God. Everyone has their own
journey during which I believeGod will reveal Himself at
different times, it cannot be forced.
Regarding your previous post, I doubt there are any Christians
who believe in actively, deliberately assisting someone to die.
What they can do is make everything easier for a person to die
with dignity, in peace and free from pain. That is what the
hospice movement and the McMillan team, do and it is very
effective, and kind.
The idea of involving someone else in your suicide is awful. I
don't sit in judgement on someone who does commit suicide,
without help, but that generally happens when they are desperate
and there is no hope. We can't see into the mind of another,
only God can do that.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: February 15, 2024, 8:51 am
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[quote author=Lyn link=topic=50.msg13868#msg13868
date=1708002229]
Why worry about it? Leave it to God. Everyone has their own
journey during which I believeGod will reveal Himself at
different times, it cannot be forced.
Regarding your previous post, I doubt there are any Christians
who believe in actively, deliberately assisting someone to die.
What they can do is make everything easier for a person to die
with dignity, in peace and free from pain. That is what the
hospice movement and the McMillan team, do and it is very
effective, and kind.
The idea of involving someone else in your suicide is awful. I
don't sit in judgement on someone who does commit suicide,
without help, but that generally happens when they are desperate
and there is no hope. We can't see into the mind of another,
only God can do that.
[/quote]
This is not hospice care, but deliberate euthanasia called MAID
by our government. We as Christians are opposed to euthanasia.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Lyn Date: February 15, 2024, 9:32 am
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I know that, Leslie. If you read my post above, in the second
paragraph I said that you won't generally find Christians
agreeing with that, and I don't.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: February 15, 2024, 12:10 pm
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But they do agree, many are from Quebec and Catholic. I can find
the figures showing that if needed and the fact that increases
in MAID are growing 'exponentially' year by year.
I am convinced that ill religiously informed Catholics are
included in the numbers.
MAID , euthanasia is a terrible thing from Pandora's Box that
Trudeau let loose amongst us.
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Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: February 18, 2024, 10:26 am
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Well the 9:30 Mass was full of visitors this Sunday. The people
in front of us ( we sat near the front today for a change) took
up the gifts and one of them had the flag of France attached to
her scarf or coat. I checked this at home and it was the flag of
France. Also when greeting each other people the people behind
us wanted to shake hands. Normally we just smile and nod. They
were visitors or perhaps refugees.
#Post#: 14529--------------------------------------------------
Re: Catholic News
By: Leslie Date: March 4, 2024, 5:01 am
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"It seemed to me that if Christ was truly the Son of God and if
he founded a Church to teach all nations in His name, it must be
a Church teaching with authority, as her Master did. Obviously
one might deny that Christ was the Son of God, and one might
reject the claim that he founded a Church. But if these two
claims were accepted, it seemed to me that in spite of all its
faults the Roman Catholic Church was the only one which could
reasonably be thought to have developed out of what Christ
established."[5]
F.C.Copleston
A Jesuit, lecturer and philosopher who wrote the book Aquinas (A
Pelicon Original) a tattered copy of which I am reading this
Lent.
He converted to Catholicism from the Church of England when he
was 18 years old.
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