People will have to realize there’s a difference between saying, ‘I know this is what the church says but I can’t practice it for practical reasons,’ and saying, ‘The church has no right to tell me this, so I quit.’ If a person studies a ruling and can’t obey it, then he or she will have to say that for them it is a matter of conscience. A good Roman Catholic should want to obey, but if they can’t, they have to resolve it as best they can. This is not dissent from the Church in my view.
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| — | Cardinal Carter of Toronto, regarding the 1980 synod on the family and contraception (via shortbreadsh) |
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katalopolis said:
I am loving all the stuff you’re posting on Catholic dissent recently. It’s sort of helping my “very slowly and very hesitantly leaning towards the Church” thing I’ve got going on.
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