tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8950714.post8460457657184233825..comments2024-02-15T17:38:13.412-06:00Comments on nunblog: A Question of AuthoritySister Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04032465016160490375noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8950714.post-52810016117740276262009-12-15T10:29:12.126-06:002009-12-15T10:29:12.126-06:00Sr. Lorraine, with all due respect, I don't th...Sr. Lorraine, with all due respect, I don't think that this is an issue of just deciding what to believe and what not to believe as if it were the same as picking the pudding over the fruit cup in the cafeteria. It's not that simple.<br /><br />There are many, many people (myself being one of them) who honestly and legitimately disagree with some Catholic (and some Pentecostal and some Reformed and some Lutheran and so on and so forth) theology. This is not a result of picking and choosing. For some, I will concede, religion and theology is very much like a cafeteria--picking the sweet options and not the options that are healthy. It is ridiculous to say that all non-Catholics (or anybody who disagrees with us) are wrong and just operating on a cafeteria theology. <br /><br />Again, I say all of this with no disrespect. I cannot, however, idly stand around while it is being said--by extension--that I am making up my own "truths" and, in essence, not following Christ. I'm sorry, but I cannot do that in good conscience.<br /><br />Peace to both of you.(The Future Rev.)Cody Maynushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01670754243128922788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8950714.post-31887910317272706622009-12-15T10:07:31.899-06:002009-12-15T10:07:31.899-06:00This whole issue is a reflection of how relativism...This whole issue is a reflection of how relativism pervades our whole society. The idea that I can make up my own truth is at the root of the problem. <br />Yet reality is what it is, not what I want it to be. I can decide that the sun moves around the earth. By if I do, it won't change the reality of the solar system.Sr. Marianne Lorraine Trouvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17195314713288191226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8950714.post-32351927771957385982009-12-14T17:14:18.606-06:002009-12-14T17:14:18.606-06:00And yet... "He who hears you, hears Me; he wh...And yet... "He who hears you, hears Me; he who rejects you, rejects Me; he who rejects Me, rejects the One who sent me." What would that mean if each person could simply interpret the Scriptures and the Jesus story for him or herself? Even Paul insisted that "his" churches remain faithful to the Gospel they had heard from him, or they risked rejecting "not men, but God who sends his Spirit among you" (1 Thess 4:8).<br />So Catholics who really know what they're about are not just blindly taking in whatever "Father So and So" or Bishop So and So (or even Pope So and So) says, but recognizes in authentic church teaching (discernable also because of its continuity with the earliest church teachings) "God who sends his Spirit" to "teach us all things, whatsoever I told you."<br />But a lot of Catholics don't really know that and act, well, like Protestants! (Which is your very understandable position, of course!)<br />This woman's story might be more interesting than a theological treatise; I follow her blog and find it extremely well-written, intellectually engaging and (to top it off) entertaining:http://www.conversiondiary.com/2007/10/why-im-catholic.htmlSister Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032465016160490375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8950714.post-77818108418302385322009-12-14T12:29:40.193-06:002009-12-14T12:29:40.193-06:00While I do not, in any way, agree with the notion ...While I do not, in any way, agree with the notion of reincarnation, I also do not, in any way, agree that a group of men (or a group of women, for that matter) has the authority to tell me--or anybody else for that matter--what to be believe. My beliefs are between God and I--not Rome and I.<br /><br />This is why, as much as I would love to enter into Communion with the Catholic Church, I will not be able to do so in good conscience. <br /><br />Peace to you, Sister.Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448579429360413016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8950714.post-76144809178697788532009-12-14T10:47:19.866-06:002009-12-14T10:47:19.866-06:00The Chicago Tribune also commented on this phenome...The Chicago Tribune also commented on this phenomenon of American syncretism: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2009/12/ghosts-in-church-pews.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chicagotribune%2Ftheseeker+%28Chicago+Tribune+-+The+Seeker+religion+news%29Sister Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032465016160490375noreply@blogger.com