I am not catholic, but I do belive and try to follow the teaching of Jesus Christ. Sometimes I wish I could call down lightning to strike these unbelivers. After all , that is what they are. As with Sgt. York, a little lightning strike might go along ways.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

They just don't get that the Catholic Church isn't a democracy, where members get to vote on the teachings of the Church. They may not like it. But, that's the way it is.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

threatened "to use his ecclesiastical authority to punish me if I did not conform my voting record to his view of what Catholic dogma required."

This statement pretty much sums up the liberal interpretation of how the Catholic church operates. "punish me", "his view" - these phrases suggest that it is the Archbishop himself who determines when a Catholic politician is acting in opposition to Catholic doctrine.

You are correct, Michael. "The Catechism of the Catholic Church" is available to anyone who wants to bother to read it in order to provide an insight into Catholic teaching. I find that the most vociferous critics of the Catholic church are those who were once practicing Catholics, but have since "fallen away". And the secular libs are more than happy to latch on to such people rather than actually doing the research for themselves. It doesn't matter who you are or what your position may be in American society - if you profess to be a Catholic, you should be faithful to the teachings of the Church.

I have come to understand the bias of certain stories, certain statements, but...seriously. Liberal bias because of the word "views"?

And did he threaten "to use his ecclesiastical authority to punish me if I did not conform my voting record to his view of what Catholic dogma required"?

That was a very well written rebuttal to that liberal diatribe.

The Archbishop is not imposing his views, just simply following the teachings of Jesus Christ which is so eloquently spelled out in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Another Fidei Defensor!

Hurrah!

"The Truth is absolute.", Pope Benedict XVI

Look, I am sick to death of all these "Catholics", like those quoted in the story, who want the Church to cater to their views and allow them to do whatever they want and still be Catholics. No one is forced to join the Catholic Church or to stay there.

When you want Italian food, you go to an Italian restaurant. You don't go to a Chinese restaurant, and complain because they don't serve Italian food! The teachings of the Catholic Church are not secret; they are well-known. Why someone would join the Church and then complain that they want women priests, married priests, divorce and abortion is beyond me. And why someone would join or stay in a Church whose teachings they disagree with is even farther out of my realm of understanding.

The people who complain are the ones who want to do what they want and still call themselves Catholics. Well, Abe Lincoln once posed the riddle: How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? The other person said 5. Lincoln said: Wrong. Four. Calling the tail a leg doesn't make it one. People can call themselves Catholic, but if they arent' following the teaching of the Church they are not Catholics. The Catholic Church is just the place they choose to go on Sundays.

When I was a teenager, I wrote this poem, one of my best, that addresses this:

To name a name
And say the name is true
Is not to name
The breath
that gave it due.

To name a name
And say the name is true
Is not to name
The
breath that gave it do.

To name a name
And say the name is true
Is not to name
The
BREATH that gave it dew.

(Sorry cannot get the formatting correct)

Not a Democrap or a lip-brawl, mostly a conserve-a-tiff. Famous words of elderly from movie "Moonstruck: "Somebody tell a joke" .judahisbenheard.com

Jesus is God. Jesus can tell people how to live. We can tell people, but there should be some humbleness to what we say. And we should point out when we are telling someone what God says, that God says it, that we are just repeating what God says. No one is God and no one is a stand in for God.

I do not agree that it is liberal bias to speak against a faith-belief. I speak against any faith-belief that is not of the true 'born again' in Christ Biblical Christian faith-belief, which includes speaking against Catholicism. And I am the furthest thing from a bias-liberal.

We all must realize that in order for someone to be "fully whatever" faith one is, one is going to be fully against all faiths that go against that faith.

Debra...