Are you a Cafeteria Catholic?

Sep 17 '09, 10:21PM
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Sep 17 '09, 10:21PM
I am Teddy. Once you read this you cannot get out. Finish reading this until it is done! As I said, I am Teddy. I am 13 years old and have no eyes and blood all over my face. I am dead. If you don't post this in 12 threads, I will come to ur house at midnight and hide under ur bed. When ur asleep I'll kill you. Don't believe me? Case 1: Patty Buckles got this email. She doesn't believe in chain letters. Well, foolish Patty. She was sleeping when her TV started flickering on and off. Now she's not with us anymore. Haha Patty, haha. You don't wanna be like Patty, do you? Case 2: George M Simon hates chain mail, but he didn't wanna die that night. He put it in 4 threads. Not good enough George. Now George is in a coma we don't know if he'll ever wake up. Haha George haha! Now, you don't wanna be like George do you? Case 3: Valarie Tyler got this letter. Another chain letter she thought. She only put this in 7 threads. Well, that night when she was having a shower she saw Bloody Me

Thomas Merton talks of the "unspeakable void" as the place where God is absent; darkness, where there is no light; and cold where is no energy. Satan, thus is neither a creation of God, nor his bi-polar "bad" person, but a choice we make in denying God. "Defeating" Satan...is a peculiar phrase, as all we must do (if given HIS grace) is to believe in God - following the Church as the most direct way, but with critical and honest eyes and personal appeals for guidance to the Holy Spirit.

Most of these comments show how hard hearted people are. We must be obedient and humble to defeat Satan. Humility involves a willingness to learn the Truth. Truth can make us all very uncomfortable and some,angry. However it does not cease being the truth.

I can see you have only 4 comments since July ? Yet your article appears in Jan 5,2009 ? You live near Boston College ?Already there is one strike on you . The Pope calls for unity on Financial Crisis on page one (1) but avoids the Unjust War Doctrine of the Catholic Church. He actually promoted the War with Bush in Iraq.. Pro -Life means "killing innocent" children and women with depleted uranium bombs is okay. Rev McBrien from NotreDame had an article in Last weeks globe about teaching. He knows less than i do about the Church outside of his books and the University ..You people read a good story but do not practice what JESUS taught us .. Please go back to where you came from . Picket fence american Katholics ,with NO common sense ......joe bell 2 ellis st woburn ma 01801 781-932-1640

To impose anything on the people but the honest search for God through Christ is preposterous...and reminds of Savanarola, Calvin, Zwingli and Knox...to name just a few dictatorial "Christians".
The real Catholic Church of the "comunity of saints" has no business controlling our minds. Thus it is not "only" about life family issues and parochial schools, but no less about deep spirituality, unjust war, capital punishment, poverty, individual freedoms and social justice. As such...I am definitively a proud Cafeteria Catholic...who will go the extra mile in order to save my Catholic Church from narrow mindedness, intolerance and an undemocratic mind set.

Wow - what a test. This is crazy ridiculous. Don't assume that everyone wants to be 100% like Rome.

Give me a break, I have only had one RCIA class. I do kow one thing, calling someone an idiot you don't even know is judging and that is wrong. Thanks for the encouraging words to someone who is about to convert to catholicism. Maybe you should learn what Christian love is. I never claimed to know everything, that is why I am in RCIA and studying my bible daily. Everyone wasn't born a Catholic and raised in Catholic school. That doesn't mean we are idiots, just uneducated in this area but in my case, I am willing to learn.

You are an idiot. I don't know where you got your answers but they aren't within Catholic teaching.
You are adding to Cafeteria Catholicism.