Do you believe most churches have lost their way?

Dr. Krieg · Apr 6, 2010

Odin, instead of jesus.

Forbin · Apr 6, 2010

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Forbin said: ↑

My wife bailed on the Catholic church after that saint decanonizing spree they had decades ago. It made her wonder. Why can someone be a saint one day and not the next? Is the whole thing arbitrary? There was more to it than that, but she says that was the last straw.

Her sister still goes to church, but her idealism toward Catholicism was crushed when the Church refused to let her divorce her first husband. She wondered why the Church wanted her to remain miserable. So she stopped taking the Church seriously, got a civil divorce, and remarried a nice Methodist boy.
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This is what I'm talking about, most people don't actually understand their own faith.

They never decanonized any saints, they just said certain ones (such as my name sake) are largely legendary and there is little evidence for their genuine existence. Saint Christopher is still a saint.

As for your sister-in-law, the Church can't undo your contract with God, it's simply not within their power. It's why defrocked Priests can still technically celebrate the sacraments (but they're not supposed to). Annulments aren't a divorce: they're a finding that the marriage was invalid.
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In fairness, it could also be my misunderstanding of the way my wife explained it.

Chris · Apr 6, 2010

Forbin said: ↑

Chris said: ↑

Forbin said: ↑

My wife bailed on the Catholic church after that saint decanonizing spree they had decades ago. It made her wonder. Why can someone be a saint one day and not the next? Is the whole thing arbitrary? There was more to it than that, but she says that was the last straw.

Her sister still goes to church, but her idealism toward Catholicism was crushed when the Church refused to let her divorce her first husband. She wondered why the Church wanted her to remain miserable. So she stopped taking the Church seriously, got a civil divorce, and remarried a nice Methodist boy.
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This is what I'm talking about, most people don't actually understand their own faith.

They never decanonized any saints, they just said certain ones (such as my name sake) are largely legendary and there is little evidence for their genuine existence. Saint Christopher is still a saint.

As for your sister-in-law, the Church can't undo your contract with God, it's simply not within their power. It's why defrocked Priests can still technically celebrate the sacraments (but they're not supposed to). Annulments aren't a divorce: they're a finding that the marriage was invalid.
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In fairness, it could also be my misunderstanding of the way my wife explained it.
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to criticize your wife.

Apologies.

Forbin · Apr 6, 2010

S'okay, I didn't take it that way.

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