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.

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 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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

+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

thanks everyone!

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

+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.

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.

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

+1 on Holy Trinity

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.

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