What people here who demand Catholics leave their church don't understand.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

127. Well, that's a wonderfully fucked-up way of thinking.

Funny thing, because when I go to mass and I hear the words of the liturgy and I hear the words of the homily and the prayers, the need to cover up child abuse or lawsuits about contraception or what have you are really not the first things that come to my mind. I'm thinking about how those words affect my belief and my every day life. Because that's what religion--if you so choose to have one--should be about.

Occasionally, I might think that it might be nice to have those words spoken by a woman or a married person for a change, but other than that, none of those issues that go beyond mass and my local parish really come into play.

And as I mentioned down thread, very rarely are the hot button politically tinged topics such as abortion, contraception, same sex marriage, etc. actually mentioned at mass. There's no mention whatsoever of them in the liturgy itself, and the typical priest's homily usually does not address them but instead talks about basic faith tenants and doing good in the world.

The notion that actively worshiping Catholics are nothing more than braindead sheep who recieve week-in and week-out ultraconservative marching orders from their local parish priest is nothing but a sheer fiction.