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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-15-09 09:54 PM
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81. Thank you for posting this. Remember that

Jesus said we would be hated as He was. Catholics get it the worst but all Christians are slammed here. We have something they don't have and it bugs them no end.
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  -That Darned Catholic Church! kanrok  Mar-07-09 06:49 PM   #0 
  - I'm Catholic. Could not nor would I want to  emilyg   Mar-07-09 06:52 PM   #1 
  - Ditto, Emily  kanrok   Mar-08-09 12:55 AM   #61 
  - I'm not Catholic any more really but the Catholics I know  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 06:55 PM   #2 
  - I agree E  kanrok   Mar-08-09 01:00 AM   #63 
  - Excellent post!  serrano2008   Mar-07-09 06:57 PM   #3 
  - My pleasure Serrano  kanrok   Mar-08-09 12:56 AM   #62 
  - On top of all these threads  ReliantJ   Mar-07-09 06:59 PM   #4 
  - It is a shame that the good works of some Catholics  MissB   Mar-07-09 07:01 PM   #5 
  - Why would good work be "swept away" by the corruption of the powerful?  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:06 PM   #8 
  - You thinking the Catholic church has a sparkling image?  MissB   Mar-07-09 07:12 PM   #11 
     - And we know that image is what counts over everything else.  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:13 PM   #13 
     - As I've said above using different words  MissB   Mar-07-09 07:21 PM   #16 
        - Well, no. That isn't what you said initially. Maybe you should try  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:35 PM   #22 
           - As I said, best of luck.  MissB   Mar-07-09 08:22 PM   #38 
              - Lol. No, you didn't upset me. But you did shift your statement.  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 08:50 PM   #47 
                 - Nope.  MissB   Mar-07-09 09:02 PM   #49 
     - You think the U.S. has a sparkling image?  pnwmom   Mar-07-09 08:00 PM   #33 
        - Exactly.  MissB   Mar-07-09 08:22 PM   #39 
        - Well, except that the laity have absolutely no say  JerseygirlCT   Mar-07-09 09:09 PM   #50 
           - Exactly.  rosesaylavee   Mar-08-09 08:19 AM   #72 
              - Too true  JerseygirlCT   Mar-08-09 11:37 AM   #73 
                 - Yep. I went from thinking of perhaps joining the convent  rosesaylavee   Mar-08-09 03:55 PM   #74 
  - How do Catholics deal with the knowledge of what some of our religious leaders  pnwmom   Mar-07-09 07:58 PM   #31 
  - You are absolutely right.  MissB   Mar-07-09 08:23 PM   #40 
  - Thanks for the kind words, B  kanrok   Mar-08-09 01:01 AM   #64 
  - Catholic Worker House and Catholic Charities serve the MOST down-and-out Americans there are.  patrice   Mar-07-09 07:04 PM   #6 
  - Good points patrice  kanrok   Mar-08-09 01:04 AM   #65 
  - As a former Cahtolic I say....  Hell Hath No Fury   Mar-07-09 07:05 PM   #7 
  - Interestingly  kanrok   Mar-08-09 12:36 AM   #60 
  - Good job, kanrok.  rug   Mar-07-09 07:08 PM   #9 
  - Thanks Rug  kanrok   Mar-08-09 01:05 AM   #66 
  - And yet two weeks before the 2008 presidential elections...  walkaway   Mar-07-09 07:08 PM   #10 
  - There were some priests who did this  kanrok   Mar-08-09 12:26 AM   #58 
  - Did you think about it on a boat? Did you think about it with a goat?  tanngrisnir3   Mar-07-09 07:13 PM   #12 
  - LOL  kanrok   Mar-08-09 12:30 AM   #59 
  - I know that in the catholic community there is very good people but  Sandrine for you   Mar-07-09 07:14 PM   #14 
  - The page you link to has been pulled. n/t  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:28 PM   #19 
  - An another one:  Sandrine for you   Mar-07-09 07:41 PM   #27 
  - Sandrine  kanrok   Mar-08-09 01:08 AM   #67 
     - An almost impossible task for most:  Sandrine for you   Mar-11-09 06:30 PM   #78 
  - Thank you so much for posting this. K&Red.  Tommy_Carcetti   Mar-07-09 07:18 PM   #15 
  - Thanks, Tommy  kanrok   Mar-08-09 01:09 AM   #68 
  - What you're missing about the screeds  Warpy   Mar-07-09 07:23 PM   #17 
  - Yes, they did. Because congregants ARE the Church as much  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:26 PM   #18 
  - Say what you will  robdogbucky   Mar-07-09 07:33 PM   #20 
  - "Say what you will" is not a response, but the avoidance of a response. n/t  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:36 PM   #23 
  - And that 'title!'  Fire1   Mar-07-09 07:39 PM   #26 
  - It should have been edited or locked much earlier.  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:51 PM   #29 
     - Clearly! But as I've said before, I guess it depends on who  Fire1   Mar-07-09 07:57 PM   #30 
        - DU admins and mods always seem to trend to free speech.  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 07:59 PM   #32 
           - Agree.  Fire1   Mar-07-09 08:05 PM   #35 
  - The Church is extremely authoritarian, I wouldn't call the laity members of the church but more...  Solon   Mar-07-09 08:05 PM   #34 
     - The so called laity is the church as well and not subject unless they live in Vatican City, no?  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 08:10 PM   #36 
        - Of course not, but then again, who has power within the Church?  Solon   Mar-07-09 08:18 PM   #37 
        - The archbishop in my home town was the guy who put H8 together  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 08:26 PM   #41 
           - True, but most of that work is usually done outside of the Church itself...  Solon   Mar-07-09 08:31 PM   #43 
              - Agree about Kerry and Kennedy but not about most of the work.  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 08:33 PM   #44 
                 - Most of that work is usually noncontroversial within the Church...  Solon   Mar-07-09 08:39 PM   #46 
                    - Growing up, I heard many times  JerseygirlCT   Mar-07-09 09:21 PM   #52 
        - But don't you see that the reason such men are in a position  JerseygirlCT   Mar-07-09 09:18 PM   #51 
           - I've made no comment whatsoever on what I think about  EFerrari   Mar-08-09 04:36 AM   #69 
  - Nope, not anti-Catholic at all.  rug   Mar-07-09 07:34 PM   #21 
  - Sounds like the hierarchy to me  Warpy   Mar-07-09 07:36 PM   #24 
  - Yes, it's a finely nuanced piece of writing.  rug   Mar-07-09 07:38 PM   #25 
  - Attention Choir ... Nance is outraged AGAIN .. you may pay tribute now ...  rtassi   Mar-07-09 07:50 PM   #28 
  - You attack my Church - you attack me.  emilyg   Mar-07-09 09:22 PM   #54 
  - Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Warpy  kanrok   Mar-08-09 12:19 AM   #57 
  - There are good people who do good works.  Why Syzygy   Mar-07-09 08:26 PM   #42 
  - An opinion not forwarded in the OP. n/t  EFerrari   Mar-07-09 08:34 PM   #45 
     - "That Darned Catholic Church"...  Why Syzygy   Mar-07-09 10:37 PM   #56 
        - No, it doesn't. The OP doesn't say you must be Catholic  EFerrari   Mar-08-09 04:38 AM   #70 
           - Did she mention any non-Catholics  Why Syzygy   Mar-08-09 07:11 AM   #71 
  - The Catholic Church is overdue for a good Schism.  phantom power   Mar-07-09 08:59 PM   #48 
  - Not to mention the lesbian who died alone on her death bed because of your church.  readmoreoften   Mar-07-09 09:22 PM   #53 
  - Ex-Catholic Here!  K8-EEE   Mar-07-09 09:52 PM   #55 
  - You are proud to be a member of an organization which spends lots and lots of money  ZombieHorde   Mar-08-09 08:54 PM   #75 
  - I grew up in the Catholic Church is Mass  Marrah_G   Mar-09-09 07:49 AM   #76 
  - You're probably right about that  JerseygirlCT   Mar-11-09 08:59 PM   #79 
     - And the effect it continues to have.  Marrah_G   Mar-16-09 07:27 AM   #83 
  - The major problem has and will continue to be that it is a hierarchy.  olegramps   Mar-10-09 06:46 AM   #77 
  - I think that's so, too.  JerseygirlCT   Mar-11-09 09:01 PM   #80 
  - Thank you for posting this. Remember that  DemBones DemBones   Mar-15-09 09:54 PM   #81 
     - Amazing, isn't it,  Why Syzygy   Mar-15-09 10:10 PM   #82 
 

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