As my name and profile suggest, I have been reevaluating my faith. Although I have often expressed?

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a dislike for Catholic doctrine, the more I look, the more I think it is the religion for me. Can anyone tell me where to get accurate info on the Catholic faith?

I am totally serious. I love that they believe in a female aspect of God/dess.

Thanks for the great answers.

Ummm...I got the info that they believe in a feminine aspect of God/dess from Father K.

And...
I'm not talking about Mary. I am talking about the female aspect of God.

Time, thank you. I have been looking into Christian Wicca as well.

Oops, that last was for Tim.

Answer 1

Where did you read that the catholic church believes in Goddess? You may want to reevaluate your sources before you reevaluate your entire faith.

Answer 2

I used to go to Catholic Church when I was a teen and I used to love it. There is a lot of its doctrine that it is still within me. For example, the worshiping of saints. I believe saints are very High Level Spirits with the mission to help us and we all kinda "get along" with some of them better. I pray to the Virgin Mary every night and I can feel her protection and her love. She is like our mother in Heaven. I also pray to Saint George, he was a warrior who died because of his faith. I believe he can protect us, since he is a warrior. Saint Francis of Assisi, a story of faith and humbleness.

I also think the Catholic Churches are the most beautiful and the weddings are unforgettable. Catholics are people with a huge faith.

However, there is a few things that I don't agree, especially concerning its dogma and the concept of the after life, and that's why I am not Catholic anymore, but I have a strong respect for Catholicism.

Good search!

Peace!

Answer 3

The Catechism of the Catholic Church
available on the Web and in most bookstores
Try Catholic Answers
Look into the Documents of Vatican II

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Go to your parish of choice and ask about the RCIA program where they teach you the doctrine, you can ask the hard questions as much as you want and decide if it works for you. If you like and understand what you find, it leads to full communion w/ the Church, however they do no believe in any "goddess".

Answer 6

that female aspect of christianity is a melding of pagan goddesses who were claimed and altered by the catholic church to facilitate conversion of pagans. compare her imagery to that of the goddesses who preceeded her.

if you want a religion that balances male and female, you need to investigate taoism or modern paganism. pagan in the more literal in that most pagans consider the male and female to be more or less equal, with slightly more honor going to the female by virtue of motherhood. the tao te ching says that you should embrace the feminine.

Answer 7

The Catholic Church is teaching people in AIDS ridden areas of Africa that condom use is a sin. They are at least partly responsible for the deaths and orphans that come from their teaching.

Why would you think this is a good Church?

Answer 8

Why do you NEED any religion. Follow your heart and trust your conscience. Religion won't add anything to your life just restrict you for the sake of a non-existent sky faery.

Answer 9

Catholics, in addition to taking God’s name upon themselves, have taken Christ’s too. They thereby obligated themselves to follow the teachings of Jesus yet Catholics are divided on matters of faith and morals. They teach as doctrine certain things like Trinity, Hellfire, Immortality of the Soul, while their very own encyclopedia denies these teachings came from the Bible. For example:

TRINITY: Note what they say in The New Catholic Encyclopedia: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective." So neither Jesus nor 1st century christians taught such a doctrine.

According to the Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples....This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century B.C.E.] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions."

HELLFIRE and IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL: This is held as doctrine yet the scriptures - and their encyclopedia deny it
---- Rom. 6:23: “The wages sin pays is death.” Not punishment.

So what does it say regarding punishment for sins after death?
Rom. 6:7: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”

Ecclesiastes 9:5,10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [mankind’s common grave], the place to which you are going.”—

The New Catholic Encyclopedia under “Soul, Human, Immortality Of,” says that early Church Fathers found support for belief in an immortal soul, not in the Bible, but in “the poets and philosophers and general tradition of Greek thought . . . Later, the scholastics preferred to make use of Plato or principles from Aristotle.” It states that “the influence of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought”—including belief in the immortal soul—eventually was inserted “into the very core of Christian theology.”

Regarding immortality of the soul and the source of it's theory The Catholic Encyclopedia states: .... the concept “owes more to Greek philosophy than to biblical revelation.” The Jewish Encyclopedia explains: “The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of simple faith, and is accordingly nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture.”

VENERATION OF IMAGES/MARY: Just as with the Trinity, the “mother of God” doctrine is a pagan teaching masquerading as a Christian belief. It was prominent in pagan religions centuries before Christ.

Note what Catholic priest Andrew Greely says in his book The Making of the Popes 1978: “The Mary symbol links Christianity directly to the ancient [pagan] religions of mother goddesses.”

Again The Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: “That popular devotion to the Blessed Virgin was often attended with extravagance and abuses, it is impossible to deny.”

While theologians may try to excuse this by saying that such veneration of Mary is only an indirect way of worshiping God, that is not the way God views it. “There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5; 1 John 2:1, 2) Jesus himself said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”—John 14:6.

Luke 11:27, 28, JB: “Now as he [Jesus] was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!’ But he replied, ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!’” (This would certainly have been a fine opportunity for Jesus to pay special honor to his mother if that had been appropriate. He did not do so.)

WAR: A Catholic chaplain for the airmen who dropped the atom bombs on Japan in 1945 stated recently: “For the last 1,700 years the church has been making war respectable. It has been inducing people to believe that it is an honorable Christian profession. This is not true. We have been brainwashed. . . . The gospel of the Just War is a gospel that Jesus never taught. . . . There is nothing in the life or teaching of Jesus that would suggest that while it is illegitimate to incinerate people by a nuclear warhead, it is legitimate to incinerate people by napalm or flamethrower.”

What does the Bible say about war/killing? : “If anyone makes the statement: ‘I love God,’ and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that the one who loves God should be loving his brother also.” (1 John 4:20, 21)

The Catholic Herald of London stated: “The first Christians . . . took Jesus at His word and refused to be conscripted into the Roman army even if the penalty was death. Would the whole of history have been different if the Church had stuck to its original stand? . . . If the churches of today could come out with a joint condemnation of war . . . , which would mean that every member would be bound in conscience to be, like the Christians, a conscientious objector, peace might indeed be assured. But we know that this will never happen.”

HOMOSEXUALITY: The Bishop of Chester, Michael Baughen, argued that “the Greek of the New Testament justified the restatement of Anglican doctrine to express ‘love, sadness, sensitivity and understanding’ towards homosexuals,” that homosexuality was rebuked in Scripture only as “a wandering away from the path.” What the Scriptures really say is that homosexuals, if they don’t change, will not inherit the Kingdom and “are deserving of death.”—Romans 1:27, 32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. And in their very own version of the Bible; “Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals . . . will inherit the kingdom of God.”—1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Revised Standard Version, Catholic edition. Why would you want to associate yourself with a church who place homosexual pedophiles in a position of priest?

I hope this research will serve as food for thought in your decision. I would think twice before I joined a church that presents these doctrines as truth that the Bible and even their own encyclopedia acknowledges have pagan roots.

Answer 10

Erm..... they don't.

Mary wasn't a goddess by anyone's definition.
As for accurate info ..... stupid as it may sound, your best bet is Wikipedia. Everything else is individually made and likely riddled with bias.