tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post5307757975639649961..comments2024-03-28T05:34:06.484-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: Today on Kresta - June 9, 2011Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-69092309096908908502011-06-12T12:16:44.827-04:002011-06-12T12:16:44.827-04:00PS. This is why when you google "American Ca...PS. This is why when you google "American Catholic Council" you get almost no news hits today. The peak of reporting was Friday--anticipatory feelers, you understand. But there isn't much to report and not much response. Most people, outside of certain Catholic circles on either extreme, including those who've left, don't care. It's irrelevant to them one way or the other. OK, maybe it's a chuckle, maybe. 10 secs and that was Friday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-45262270117207092182011-06-12T11:58:52.583-04:002011-06-12T11:58:52.583-04:00Correct Mauman,
Catholics don't hear anything...Correct Mauman,<br /><br />Catholics don't hear anything from most of the people who dissent from Catholic teaching. These high profile extremist groups are very small, but vocal, so they are the focus for most Catholics when they think "dissent." But most of the dissent doesn't come from here. <br /><br />People inside the church doing things they shouldn't don't make it public,and Catholics are quite blind to what goes on with those who leave the church--they just disappear from view. In droves. There are astonishing blind spots in the views of most Catholics on these topics.<br /><br />I know more ex-Catholics than Catholics. Statistics say that the second most populous denomination in the US is ex-catholic. Officially many of those people are still on our "membership lists" but they are gone. <br /><br />The American Catholic Council, VOTF and the like are soundly wrong on all of what they would say is the solution and that's what this is about. The answer is NOT dumbing the church down, letting women be priests and all that nonsense. The answer is encouraging Catholics to get real spiritual lives and start living out the Gospel in a real way and telling the truth about what we believe. We need to live the Christian life and teach our young to live the Christian life. That's what we're missing and that's why people are leaving. They don't see that among us. They see their parents & friends going to church once a week and then coming home *unchanged* to practice birth control and live alone together in fear and strife for yet another week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-14215427868044990042011-06-09T22:39:43.507-04:002011-06-09T22:39:43.507-04:00Re: Dissenting Catholics
The Catholic Church has...Re: Dissenting Catholics <br /><br />The Catholic Church has a much bigger problem than famous dissenters like Hans Kung or outspoken dissident groups like Call to Action. Al briefly alluded to the problem in his introduction to Hour 2. Most Catholics, at least in the United States and Europe, are dissident Catholics. They just don't make a big deal of it publicly. <br /><br />How many Catholics in the United States and Europe disagree with Church teaching on contraception? Based on what I've read, it's at least two-thirds. That right there makes the Catholic Church a dissident church. The only way I see to solve that problem is to say that most Catholics are only nominally Catholic. <br /><br />I only mention contraception because that's all that's needed to make one a dissenter.maumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250198272377329639noreply@blogger.com