In the last few months, the Pope made a statement that set the ecumenical movement back a few centuries when he proclaimed the Catholic Church as THE ONE TRUE CHURCH AND THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION. He did not deny that other churches were legit – just that membership in them would not help you be “SAVED.” Oh brother!
The world watched recently as the great Luciano Pavarotti received a full CATHOLIC CEREMONY in a CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. What was wrong with this picture?
The Maestro was married, 3 kids, etc. and had an affair with his young secretary, resulting in the birth of a beautiful daughter. This was followed by a divorce. A WHAT? A CATHOLIC GOT DIVORCED AND RE-MARRIED??????? Any other Catholic would have been kicked out of the “true church” for attempting the same. Never mind that it might have been a woman whose husband nearly killed her, and she had to leave him to save her life and the lives of her children. Nope. Marriage is a sacrament. Marriage is for life.
About the same time The Maestro was receiving a full Catholic burial, an unknown man lay dying in a hospital, being kept physically alive by machines. It was determined that doing so was cruel and futile. So he and his family elected to turn off life support. When they turned to the “true church” for solace and a proper Catholic burial, THEY WERE DENIED!
Before you get the wrong idea, I IDOLIZED PAVAROTTI AS ONE OF THE GREATEST TENORS IN HISTORY!!!! (I’m a singer, so I can back this statement up on a number of fronts.) I respected not only his great talent, but his compassion and love for music and love for life.
Why am I outraged?
The TRUE CHURCH is only true to those who are famous and/or fill the pockets of the clergy. Had Pavarotti been given the same treatment as any other divorced person, the pubic outcry against the “true church” would have been deafening. The “true church” could not allow him to have only a pubic civil burial. The “true church” had to have its moment in the spotlight.
Meanwhile, an unknown grieving family got the cold shoulder instead of solace and comfort.
SHAME ON YOU, ROME!
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It is all smoke (literally) and mirrors with the church.
The Catholic church has never in its 1000 year reign been in touch with the common man.
Popes, Emperors, Kings and Knights were all welcomed as followers of the faith, given the right to break bread and invite the local parish into their castles.
Let some poor schmuck from the Shire invite the priest to his home and he will be turned down.
There were a few monks who went to the Crusades and came back more in touch with reality. Those monks, a la Cadfeal in the book series, took care of the poor.
To this day the Church does not know how to deal with the modern woman except to hold her to 1000 year old laws.
Control of her body should be God's not her own? Please.
Sisters of Charity and Mother Teresa worked with the sick and the poor how long will it take the Church to recognize it?
I am no longer a Catholic. I won't go back to a faith so full of hatred to women.
Looking back as I often told my hubby, I never felt I was praying to God when I went to Mass. I was reciting my Missal and talking to the Pope or a Saint to intervene for me.
Funny how I was taught early one that God cannot be "contacted" by me, I needed mediation!
Wherever Pavarotti is right now, he got a hell of a band and operatic back up singers with him!
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