Foxy,
How were Catholics supposed to earn a living?
Associating with non-Catholics was a must.
Have you nothing to say about the Church’s rules on mixed marriage?
How were Catholics supposed to exist in society if they couldn’t associate with their neighbours who were in most cases Protestant?
How about Members of Parliament?
Policemen?
Soldiers etc.,
Your ideas of Catholicism are divorced from reality.

CM,

Isn't it time your accused these Anglo Bishops of being "Communists", it seems that you believe 99.9% of the Australian population is Communists. That excludes you, ttbn and Beavis and Butt-Head, although I'm not to sure about Butt-Head, he does bear a striking resemblance to Comrade Stalin (If you use that vivid imagination of yours).

ttbn,

The gay marriage thing is dead and buried, get over it, its here to stay, the sky didn't fall in as the Christian fundos predicted. Those Anglo Bishops, who listens to them on any moral issue, not even the Anglicans.

The word of God is not an opinion, and cannot be changed by man. People who don't believe in the word don't have to abide by it; they can think as they wish, do as they wish. Good luck to them. But, 2000 years of teaching, if you do believe in it, doesn’t change.

I agree with mhaze's post. The 'bureaucrats' posing as ministers, priests and bishops can - and sadly do - go along with the mob for relevance, but they cease to be Christians; they cease to practise Christianity. Christ could have chickened out to save himself, too; and I shudder to think how our civilisation would have turned out then. While there's faith - and belief - there is still hope, even now.

The two worst offenders against Christianity are, the current Pope and the current Archbishop of Canterbury.

Is Mise,

What I was talking about were the interpretations of
and teachings made to us as small children those many
years ago by poorly educated and narrow-minded Irish
nuns. The Sisters of Mercy.

It wasn't my version of Catholicism that I was describing
but theirs at that time.

ttbn,

You say; "The word of God is not an opinion, and cannot be changed by man."

Leviticus 21:9 — King James Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Are you suggesting the Anglican Bishops promote and condone honour killings of girls by burning them to death?

Besides homosexuality being described as an "abomination" in the Bible so are the following.

* Wearing mixed-fabric clothing,
* Interbreeding animals of different species,
* Tattoos,
* Mocking the blind by putting obstacles in their way,
* Trimming your beard, or having no beard at all.

These Anglican Bishops are a slack mob. There are so many abominations they should be working on. I suggest they start with the beards.

Foxy,
Sorry, I took your post to be the statements of a mature adult not tne poorly remembered memories of childhood.
Had the Sisters of Mercy taught what you say they did then the wrath of the Bishop would have descended upon them as he received complaints from his Protestant acquaintances.
You also said that hatred was preached from the pulpit.
Was that also a child’s remembering?
I have never heard a priest talk hatred either at mass or out side of it and I’ve known priests who fought in Ireland in the 1916 Rising and after it, and some of them fought alongside Protestants, the first elected President of Ireland was a Protestant (95% Catholic voters).
Dr Douglass Hyde was a member of the Church of Ireland and his father was a rector therein.
The Sisters of Mercy were/are a well educated teaching order.