How to be a Catholic

Submitted by LocutusOP on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 23:49
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NE7 ,   

Charlesdawson
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Sunday, August 16, 2020 - 22:15
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How to be a Catholic
NE713 August 2020 at 16:15

In the first photo, there MIGHT be two but they can hardly be seen behind Pope Francis and that other guy, whoever he is, next to him.

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  • Charlesdawson15 August 2020 at 09:06

    It's surprisingly difficult to stop being a Catholic formally. I knew a chap once who developed militant atheism, and he became very angry at the thought that he had been baptised. He said it was child abuse, because no-one had asked his permission beforehand, him being only a few months old and all. He treated us to a blow-by-blow account of his tanglings with an uncomprehending hierarchy, who couldn't understand why he didn't just stop coming to Mass like any sensible atheist. His demands to have his baptism physically erased from the register or registers (he hated the idea that Rome might have a record of him squirrelled away somewhere in a database such as the Mormons have) left them simply bemused; you can't communicate satisfactorily someone who thinks there is no such thing as a soul, for starters. Sadly I left the forum at this stage and never knew how it all ended.

 

 

 

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History will record that the most famous and most public excommunication of the Novus Ordo error was of the man who is in any fair assessment the frontrunner for the greatest missionary of the 20th century award - Abp. Marcel Lefebvre. His great crime was to want to continue what he had been ordained to do and to ensure that others would be able to do the same.