Reply #57: We WERE told the fate of our souls would be determined by our CHOICES. [View All]

[patrice]

It is an absolute FACT that they used to teach that.

Mass every day of the week, except Saturday, and all of the holy days, all of the Sacraments, singing Gregorian Chant for all of the holy days and Catechism 5 days a week. In Catechism we students always tried to trip the nun or priest up with what-if-questions and as we got older the what-if-questions got fancier, by the time we were in high school (during the 1960s) the nun or priest would discuss the moral/ethical hypotheticals to some extent and then end with something like "If that ever happens you'll have to figure it out, but remember that the fate of your soul depends upon what you decide and what you do."

The head priest in my parish, who was the guy in charge of religious education for our Catholic high school, did not have a degree in Theology. His degree, when he was Ordained, was in PHILOSOPHY.