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Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

If we were to start that religion, we might be able to get the present pontiff to join. There is a difference in "believing" in something and "tolerating" something.

Who am I to judge?

Ironic no? That is all Catholics do is judge.

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Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

If we were to start that religion, we might be able to get the present pontiff to join. There is a difference in "believing" in something and "tolerating" something.

Who am I to judge?

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

If we were to start that religion, we might be able to get the present pontiff to join. There is a difference in "believing" in something and "tolerating" something.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

1. No. That is totally not true.

2. The whole thing about being Catholic is everything is a sin, everybody sins... No biggie.

Why won't they marry someone who is pregnant than, or a same-sex couple?

There are Catholic weddings with clearly pregnant brides quite often.

Maybe but most aren't. My SIL was 33, engaged for 2 years and her priest wouldn't marry her. She was 4 months along. This was 6yrs ago.

Some priests are crazy, some are not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

1. No. That is totally not true.

2. The whole thing about being Catholic is everything is a sin, everybody sins... No biggie.

Why won't they marry someone who is pregnant than, or a same-sex couple?

There are Catholic weddings with clearly pregnant brides quite often.

Maybe but most aren't. My SIL was 33, engaged for 2 years and her priest wouldn't marry her. She was 4 months along. This was 6yrs ago.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

1. No. That is totally not true.

2. The whole thing about being Catholic is everything is a sin, everybody sins... No biggie.

Why won't they marry someone who is pregnant than, or a same-sex couple?

There are Catholic weddings with clearly pregnant brides quite often.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

1. No. That is totally not true.

2. The whole thing about being Catholic is everything is a sin, everybody sins... No biggie.

Why won't they marry someone who is pregnant than, or a same-sex couple?

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Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

1. No. That is totally not true.

2. The whole thing about being Catholic is everything is a sin, everybody sins... No biggie.

You are right. That is exactly what the priests who molest boys tell themselves.

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

1. No. That is totally not true.

2. The whole thing about being Catholic is everything is a sin, everybody sins... No biggie.

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage

. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

Is 99 44?100% ok?

What about 5 days a week, but then you take weekends off from the homophobia?

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Anonymous wrote:But the reasons you gave were about the expense and responsibility involved in caring for a newborn, not the experience of being pregnant.

I suggest that you talk with your daughter about protecting herself from pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases. Be sure she knows that you expect her to have an abortion if she gets pregnant. Otherwise, she'll be absolutely clueless when you approach her with the abortion pills.

How do you think that works? PP would somehow obtain prescription medication for her daughter, without her daughter's involvement, and bring it home and try to stick it down her daughter's throat?

Can be bought on the internet illegally and yes, I know a young woman whose mother presented her with the first dose and said take it or leave. She left.

It amazes me people can say they are catholic but not follow their teachings. Why send them to a catholic school?

Catholics do not believe in sex before marriage, birth control, abortion, against gays/lesbians and their lifestyle and 100% against gay marriage. Start your own religion if you believe otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:But the reasons you gave were about the expense and responsibility involved in caring for a newborn, not the experience of being pregnant.

I suggest that you talk with your daughter about protecting herself from pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases. Be sure she knows that you expect her to have an abortion if she gets pregnant. Otherwise, she'll be absolutely clueless when you approach her with the abortion pills.

How do you think that works? PP would somehow obtain prescription medication for her daughter, without her daughter's involvement, and bring it home and try to stick it down her daughter's throat?

Stone Ridge graduate here - I'm pro-choice and pro-gay marriage and Catholic, although maybe not a "good" Catholic by some people's standards.

I never had a problem with this and can remember many interesting discussions on all sorts of issues - including arguments with a religion teacher. It was my experience that they encourage one to think - exploring ideas and questioning beliefs was fine. And there were plenty of liberal "cafeteria" Catholics there.

I'm a progressive Catholic and Visitation parent. I love the school. Sure, my DDs don't agree with a lot of Church orthodoxy on social issues but they are deeply committed to their Catholic identity. They also get that challenging your faith is a good thing, and an excellent complement to a high school education. Can't speak for SR, but Visitation is like the rest of society -- it is confronting a much more tolerant younger generation. The debate on campus is much more lively than most posters here have represented.