Honestly, I was raised Catholic (but kinda half-hazardly because I can't define what being a Catholic means) and still go to church whenever I feel like I should (once every few months or so). I like the routine and how I feel when I go to the Catholic church.
If you're a Catholic? He's speaking for you. He's speaking for you. And repudiation of that message of hate will take more than just disavowing him. You can't disavow the Pope and still take Communion next week. It doesn't work like that. I take communion every time I go, and I've never heard a word of what a Pope has said. I didn't even know you're "supposed" to listen to them. So it works like that for me.
Personally, I think you're supposed to 'judge' people based on their individual actions and not what organization they say they are in. You can tell me that I have to choose to be a Catholic that blindly follows the pope or I'm not Catholic at all. And I'll just look at you funny.
So, I will say, I'm a Roman Catholic and the Pope doesn't not speak for me. Never paid attention to the guy before, not really gonna start to now. Guess I'm just a different kind of Roman Catholic.
I'm still going to say I go to Catholic church, and I advocate for birth control, gay rights, and for doing whatever the fuck makes you happy as long as you aren't hurting someone else. I don't see or feel a conflict in this at all.
If you're a believer, and if you're a Catholic, then -- and I mean this sincerely, without irony -- God help you. Good luck with all this, because you're going to need it. Don't understand what you mean by this at all. Good luck with what?
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Date: 2008-12-24 04:29 pm (UTC)If you're a Catholic? He's speaking for you. He's speaking for you. And repudiation of that message of hate will take more than just disavowing him. You can't disavow the Pope and still take Communion next week. It doesn't work like that.
I take communion every time I go, and I've never heard a word of what a Pope has said. I didn't even know you're "supposed" to listen to them. So it works like that for me.
Personally, I think you're supposed to 'judge' people based on their individual actions and not what organization they say they are in. You can tell me that I have to choose to be a Catholic that blindly follows the pope or I'm not Catholic at all. And I'll just look at you funny.
So, I will say, I'm a Roman Catholic and the Pope doesn't not speak for me. Never paid attention to the guy before, not really gonna start to now. Guess I'm just a different kind of Roman Catholic.
I'm still going to say I go to Catholic church, and I advocate for birth control, gay rights, and for doing whatever the fuck makes you happy as long as you aren't hurting someone else. I don't see or feel a conflict in this at all.
If you're a believer, and if you're a Catholic, then -- and I mean this sincerely, without irony -- God help you. Good luck with all this, because you're going to need it.
Don't understand what you mean by this at all. Good luck with what?