If so, what parts and why? Does that keep you from practicing your Catholic faith?
2007-10-16 04:13:55 · 15 answers · asked by julesl68 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, there is nothing that I do not agree with. There are some things that I do not understand and have trouble accepting, but since it comes from God, I accept it and pray for the understanding.
2007-10-16 04:28:15 · answer #1 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
I agree with and believe all the core Catholic doctrine. There have been some statements made by bishops or local priests that I do not agree with, and there have been times when I have had trouble understanding certain defined points of Catholic theology.
However, when I have trouble understanding, I study the sources for these extensively and I pray a lot. I've never found that I, with only rudimentary theological training, am smarter than 2,000 years of Catholic theologians working in concert to define doctrine. Not once.
If I disagree without a bishop's or a priest's decision, it does not keep me from practicing my Catholic faith. Why would it? At least I know that the bishop/priest and I agree on that!
2007-10-16 17:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by sparki777 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics MUST believe the entirety of Catholic doctrine or they are not Catholics. If certain doctrines were "optional" then what would be the point of professing the Catholic faith or calling yourself Catholic?
Yes, some things are "hard to understand" or difficult to accept, but that is part of being human. We must pray for humility and obedience. These are godly virtues sadly lacking in today's culture.
There are some practices in Catholicism (like the Rosary or apparitions of Mary) that are not part of the deposit of faith and Catholics are not bound to follow and obey these things.
2007-10-16 11:38:30 · answer #3 · answered by Veritas 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
I assent to everything that has been set forth definitively by the Magesterium of the Church.
There is no other option.
Being a "Cafeteria Catholic" and picking what you want to believe is not acceptable. Jesus Christ guides the Church to all truth. It is not up to the layperson.
Sure, we have difficulties sometimes, but that's not a big surprise. Nothing in this world is perfect and so naturally people are going to have difficulties sometimes with the truth, especially if it is inconvenient for them.
2007-10-16 11:52:42 · answer #4 · answered by Dixie Cat 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The dogmatic teachings of the church need be taken as infallible and revealed. If we disagree with them, we cannot rightly call ourselves catholic. In fact, if people completely abandoned the dogmatic teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, christian ideaologies that many believe in today would be non-existant. For example: the trinity, that Jesus was fully God and fully man, etc.
"Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves. The truth about the Catholic attitude towards heresy, or as some would say, towards liberty, can best be expressed perhaps by the metaphor of a map. The Catholic Church carries a sort of map of the mind which looks like the map of a maze, but which is in fact a guide to the maze. It has been compiled from knowledge which, even considered as human knowledge, is quite without any human parallel.
There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.
On this map of the mind the errors are marked as exceptions. The greater part of it consists of playgrounds and happy hunting-fields, where the mind may have as much liberty as it likes; not to mention any number of intellectual battle-fields in which the battle is indefinitely open and undecided. But it does definitely take the responsibility of marking certain roads as leading nowhere or leading to destruction, to a blank wall, or a sheer precipice. By this means, it does prevent men from wasting their time or losing their lives upon paths that have been found futile or disastrous again and again in the past, but which might otherwise entrap travelers again and again in the future..." - G.K. Chesterton
2007-10-16 11:44:12 · answer #5 · answered by Spiffs C.O. 4 · 10⤊ 0⤋
If you are a Catholic, then the cafeteria should be closed and you should eat what's on the menu. You do not have the right to pick or choose.There is a difference between liberal religion and revealed religion. liberal religion is made by people and is designed according to what they think is right/feel. Revealed religion is the truth that God has revealed to people and it simply can not be changed.This is why i will remain faithful to Catholicism and its teachings.
2007-10-16 12:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any problems with any Doctrinal definitions. I did, and do, have a great deal of difficulty in following the Chruch's teachings on contraception. But I am. And with the help of God's Grace I will continue to do so until the day I die.
God Bless
Robin
2007-10-16 12:22:59 · answer #7 · answered by Robin 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Catholics can not pick and choose which teachings they will accept. Jesus did leave us this option. In fact, Jesus lost many followers because of some of His doctrines.
At one point, when He was teaching about the Eucharist, many people said to Jesus "this is a hard saying, who can accept it?" and they walked away.
Catholics who choose to not accept certain teachings are basically walking away from Christ when instead they should ask the Lord to give them obedience and understanding.
2007-10-16 11:47:06 · answer #8 · answered by Knight of Malta 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No
Slambang- not a valid answer since you are an atheist !
You are not Catholic. You are an atheist.
Here is one of your questions, "Fellow Atheists: How many times have you heard a believer say this??
2007-10-16 12:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe and profess all that the Holy Catholic Church teaches to be true. This is our faith, as handed down to us from Jesus Christ and the apostles. The Holy Spirit guides the Church and Jesus himself promised that the gates of hell would never prevail against it.
2007-10-16 11:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by The Raven † 5 · 10⤊ 0⤋