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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who struggles with the pull to the Roman Catholic church, but then recoils in horror at something and says no way ever?  (It's not just the abuse crisis and the birth control stuff--although those are pretty much deal-breakers on their own)  Intellectually, I love RC books etc.--such a great intellectual tradition and I love the quality control where books get an imprimatur etc.--but then I go to a parish and people (nice people, more virtuous than I am)--they won't engage that tradition...like I'll bring up books by their greatest theologians like Karl Rahner or books by leading Catholic academics--and it's like I'm quoting some forbidden banned book or something.  I've heard that the Arlington diocese is the most conservative in the country...but this is where I live.  Is being a liberal Catholic even possible today--especially in northern Virginia?  I don't even like that word liberal applied to faith--but everything just feels so rigid on the ground.  [/quote]

If you aren't willing to follow Catholic teaching, don't become Catholic. It would be like converting to Orthodox Judaism while refusing to keep kosher. Using birth control would be a mortal sin and you would be required to confess it every time if you wanted to receive communion. Receiving communion when in a state of mortal sin because you refuse to confess the sin would be even worse. [/quote]

It would be straight to hell with you -- if you believe in hell, of course.  If you don't, you're really not Catholic.[/quote]

but only after you're dead, even for Catholics.  Meanwhile, while you're alive, you can sin again and again.  If you get caught, you could go to jail here on earth, before burning eternally in hell.  Some people  never get caught here on earth and eternal damnation is only a matter of religious belief.  MDs, even religious ones, know that life ends when the heart stops beating.[/quote]

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