According to CNN exit polling, 50 percent of Catholic voters went for Obama, and 48 percent for Romney. This is down from 2008, when Catholics supported Obama over McCain 54-45, but up from ’04, when 52 percent of Catholics voted against their co-religionist John Kerry (47 percent supported him). This year’s Catholic vote looks more like 2000, when 50 percent of Catholic voters supported Gore over Bush, 50-47.HT New Advent
I have thoughts; I'm collecting them. It's safe to say that as a group, self identifying Catholics are destroying this country.
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........"self identifying Catholics".....
see also....HERETICS
Big spread between those who attend weekly/more than weekly and those who attend occasionally.
Still - 40% of those who attend weekly still voted for Obama???
God's own are the ones that have always hurt Him most it seems.
NO! It is not the heretics that are the problem. The Church has always had its heretics. But the Church used to be bold in declaring who they are.
The problem is the faithful Catholics who obstruct those who try to point out the failures of the bishops in their Office. And there's a very good reason for the obstruction. To acknowledge a systemic failure in the bishops causes a crisis in Faith that the faithful keep trying to avoid dealing with because it's so painful.
a) Why does God allow bad bishops to destroy the Church?
b) Why did JPII appoint so many bad bishops?
The reason I pick on Badger's blog so much is that I'm still optimistic he'll come around. I'm intentionally prodding him toward that crisis while there is still time for him to resolve it before the persecution comes. Then he'll be ready to help and console those readers and other bloggers out there who will be given little time to resolve it during the persecution and might lose the Faith.
By the Grace of God, I had the opportunity to resolve this over the last few years. The answer is not very comforting though.
It's more challenging than the question of why God allows pain and suffering in the world even amoung children.
The short intellectual answer is that God respects the authority of his bishops (and popes) even to the detriment of the Church and the destruction of local particular Churches. But like the pain/suffering answer, it takes a lot of wrestling with to understand why, and to maintain that trust in God's good will. That takes time--something we don't have much of anymore.
I would venture to guess that the 50% of Catholics who went for Obama include Sunday mass-going Catholics, not just "cultural Catholics". The Church is continuing to reap the rewards of 40+ years of no catechesis.
The Bishops can write all the letters they want. Until priests start teaching the faith every Sunday and at every mass, we'll only see more of the same.
Amen Cathy. That's what it boils down to.
Ah, but it's easy to say that someone else - bishops, priests, etc. - has the responsibility. The truth is that we all have that responsibility: first to educate ourselves, and second to educate others. If I am not doing my utmost to catechize those around me, I am not doing my duty as a baptized Catholic.
And, let's be honest - the run-of-the-mill uncatechized Catholic isn't going to pay a bishop or a priest any heed, not least because they have been given for years an example of Catholic disobedience of the successors of the apostles - for good or ill. They will, however, listen to a friend or a family member or someone at work who lives the Truth with joy.
Personally, I've been engaged in dialogue with five people (some non-Catholic, some uncatechized Catholics) on the topic of traditional marriage, six on the topic of contraception, five on the topic of religious liberty, and I know of three people who changed their votes for Obama because of our conversations. That's not to brag; it's just to pose a question to every reader here: what have you done?
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