despite all the negative things in the news
2007-07-18 15:17:45 · 18 answers · asked by apple 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's mostly habit.
2007-07-18 15:21:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
In every population of human beings are going to a few sick or evil people who commit horrible crimes, even in the Church.
These few terrible people do not negate the faith, hope and love of over one billion Catholics.
I remember that the Church is not the Church hierarchy or the priests. The Church is God and His relationship with over one billion living Catholics on Earth and God only knows how many in heaven, all of whom make up the Body of Christ.
Political scandals in nations, even up to and including the highest leaders, like President Nixon and the Watergate scandal, do not make the nation as a whole wrong, immoral, or worthless. And the Catholic Church is so much holier and more important than any nation.
With love in Christ.
2007-07-18 17:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to follow Jesus my Savior, the only choice is to follow the church that he established for me, and for all the world. I would never leave the teachings of Jesus and the disciples, nor the precious body and blood of Christ, just because the media doesn't like the Catholic Church.
I hear bad things about my faith every day, but 99.9% of it is based on falsehood and misconceptions. And as for the parts that are true...just because it is the one true church founded by Christ doesn't mean that no one in the church is capable of sinning. It would be pretty unrelastic to think people are perfect just because they are Christians. Does this change the truths of the faith or make the Church any less valid? No, not at all. I have no reason to leave my faith and I'm proud to be a Catholic.
2007-07-18 15:31:14 · answer #3 · answered by The Raven † 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My belief in the Catholic church stays the same. I don't believe that just because there was some negativity that has happen makes the religion or the people bad. It is a misfourtune that these things occur in this world. But reguardless they have. It just needs to be forgiven like any other problem and sin that people do.
2007-07-18 15:29:40 · answer #4 · answered by SDC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anti-Catholics suffer from the mistaken notion that the Church includes only saints. For them sinners should always be outside its doors. What must be grasped is that the Catholic Church or any Church for that matter contains within itself knaves, and some of them obtain positions of responsibility. Paul and Christ himself warned us that there would be a few ravenous wolves among Church leaders (Acts 20,29; Matthew 1,15).
Jesus didn't choose Judas to betray him. But Judas was always free, and he used his freedom to allow Satan to enter into him, and by his betrayal Jesus was crucified and executed. But God foresaw this evil and used it to accomplish the ultimate good: the redemption of the world.
The point is, sometimes God's chosen ones betray him. That is a fact that we have to confront. If the early Christians had focused only on the scandal caused by Judas, the Church would have been finished before it even started to grow. Instead they recognized that you don't judge a movement by those who don't live it but by those who do. Rather than focusing on the betrayer, they focused on the other eleven on account of whose work, preaching, miracles, and love for Christ we are here today. It is on account of the other eleven that Christianity is alive and well today!
For the same reason, it is on account of the good popes, priests and lay people that the Catholic Church is what it is today. Christ has indeed kept his promise to be with his Church till the end of the age.
May the Lord's peace be with you!
2007-07-18 15:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The fact that the Catholic Church is the one and only Church founded by Jesus Christ for all mankind; the fact that the Catholic Church alone possesses divine promises of absolute truth and accuracy in its teaching; the fact that the Catholic Church alone can provide the holy sacraments, the chief sources of grace which God has provided; the fact that the Catholic Church alone can make Christ physically present to me in the way He intended; the fact that Christ warned against any other churches being founded in His name, and the fact that therefore the existence of any other church is in direct violation of His stated will.
2007-07-18 15:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I had a really lousy math teacher two years in a row. Last time I checked, the Pythagorean theorem still works the same.
"Look not upon our sins, but on the faith of Your Church." I trust in God and believe the words of Christ that the gates of hell shall not prevail against His Church. I have more faith in Christ and His Church than in a handful of bad clerics.
+Pax Vobiscum+
2007-07-19 01:38:03 · answer #7 · answered by pax vobiscum 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I entered the Catholic Church because I became convinced she is the One True Church founded by Jesus Christ. That there are bad clerics doesn't change that. Jesus Himself hand-picked Judas.
2007-07-18 15:29:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is actual that it is not worry-free to maintain at religious issues while there is not any answer or reaction. yet evaluate how plenty you like God. i did no longer get God's reaction and elegance til i became into 40 5 years previous and nevertheless I had believed all my existence, it wasn't till my want for Him became into so desperate that I cried day and night for 3 days. i presumed i'd die my longing became into so great after which the veil dropped and that i knew. That became into the 2d i became into born of the spirit, set unfastened from the bonds of flesh and death. Now I stay to overcome the international quite than attempting to discover happiness in it. the international won't be able to supply lasting happiness. That comes from interior our own being, the place God is got here upon. I pray you will no longer renounce your longing to appreciate Him. wait and spot and supply Him it slow and interest. it is not wasted, I assure you. Evolution is the physique of techniques that God used to create this Universe. it is not against reality to have faith that God set the full ingredient into action. Thank God He does not care no remember in case you have faith He made it in seven days or in seven tiers. till now the earth and sunlight have been in place there became into no such ingredient as a twenty 4 hour day. Love God and save His commandments. Now you're secure in His palms. as quickly as we placed God till now the rest, He responds to that devotion and longing and one 2d in His presence is so crammed with exhilaration and peace and love that it fulfills all our longings. i wish you do no longer supply up on the religious reality in the back of this existence.
2016-11-09 20:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by bhupender 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that my faith is not connected to the actions or empty words of humans.
My faith is founded in the actions and lessons from Jesus Christ, in whom there is no negative aspects.
Peace.
2007-07-18 15:58:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we do not judge nor condemn and criticize
other people and force what we believe in on others
We have more love in the Catholic and Episcopal churches
and we accept people as they are and when they come in
the front doors
For all are welcomed in the Catholic and Episcopal and we
do not pass judgment on other people no we do not
The doors are opened to all kinds of people and we love
one another as it should be
We have no bigots nor do we bring people down because
of who that person is no
2007-07-18 15:27:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋