Looking for liberal Catholic church in NOVA?

[Anonymous]

Isn't there a tutty fruity Catholic Church in Vienna??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about St. James in Falls Church?

NO!!!!!!!!! This is the church, we are zoned for (yeah, it's weird, but true) and they are by far so darn strict and conservative it's ridiculous and I'm thinking of changing. Try Our Lady of Good Counsel in Vienna. Also at St. James for some reason they can't do a mass less than 1hr 15 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Wow, two whole pages with anti-Catholics piping to say something rude...how nice.

+1 on Holy Trinity

[Anonymous]

So basically people are saying either St. Charles in Arlington, My Lady Queen of Peace in Arlington or Our Lady of Good Counsel in Vienna. I guess I will just deal with my parish church (St. Ambrose) if there is nothing out there close to me that is more liberal. The vienna one is a little too far and so are the ones in Arlington. BLAH.

[Anonymous]

+1 for Nativity in Burke.

They are very focused on social justice. They love everyone. I bet they were saying "who am I to judge" before it was cool.

[Anonymous]

What exactly do you mean by a liberal Catholic Church. You will find no Catholic Church, no matter how liberal, that supports any if your issues publicly. You may find many individual priests who are not judgmental, but they cannot tell you that any of those things are within in the Catholic moral tradition. By the way, if you believe that the Catholic Church eschews evolution you obviously did not attend Catholic school.

As for the Episcopal Church, here is an interesting commentary from Fr. Robert Barron:
http://youtu.be/l_OfAX5LLOI

[Anonymous]

thanks everyone!

[Anonymous]

+1 for Nativity in Burke.

They are very focused on social justice. They love everyone. [/b]

I bet they were saying "who am I to judge" before it was cool. [b]

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about St. James in Falls Church?

NO!!!!!!!!! This is the church, we are zoned for (yeah, it's weird, but true) and they are by far so darn strict and conservative it's ridiculous and I'm thinking of changing. Try Our Lady of Good Counsel in Vienna. Also at St. James for some reason they can't do a mass less than 1hr 15 minutes.

How long was Jesus on the cross? I think you can spare and 1hr and 15 minutes per week.

[Anonymous]

Growing up, my family fled St. Tim's after a particularly nasty sermon about the first Gulf War and found a social-justice, Vatican II-type community at St. John Neumann's in Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Catholicism is not a la carte. Why bother attending mass when so many of your beliefs contradict fundamental Catholic positions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about St. James in Falls Church?

NO!!!!!!!!! This is the church, we are zoned for (yeah, it's weird, but true) and they are by far so darn strict and conservative it's ridiculous and I'm thinking of changing. Try Our Lady of Good Counsel in Vienna. Also at St. James for some reason they can't do a mass less than 1hr 15 minutes.

How long was Jesus on the cross? I think you can spare and 1hr and 15 minutes per week.

Spoken like the child of a Catholic Mother, now a Catholic mother herself! Thanks for the laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Growing up, my family fled St. Tim's after a particularly nasty sermon about the first Gulf War and found a social-justice, Vatican II-type community at St. John Neumann's in Herndon.

St. John's is in reston, near Herndon. I go there too. Agree with the above description.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholicism is not a la carte. Why bother attending mass when so many of your beliefs contradict fundamental Catholic positions?

Because Mass is for the sinners, not for the saints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St. Charles Borromeo in Clarendon is great. Love Father Tuck and Father Jerry before him. Clement is awesome too.

+1! Very warm congregation.