Blackrook
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...can be understood with one example.
Two Sundays ago, our priest gave a homily where he told us that a poll was taken of Catholics that determined that 2/3 of Catholics don't believe in transubstantiation, the doctrine that the bread and wine of the Eucharist becomes the literal Body and Blood of Christ.
The Catholic priest, normally a mild-mannered fellow, was outraged that so many Catholics did not believe in a fundamental teaching of the Catholic faith.
Tonight, I talked to an Episcopalian priest. I asked him what the Eucharist meant to him. He told me he believes in transubstantiation, but that many laymen in his parish believe the Eucharist is only symbolic.
He told me he didn't care one way or another whether the people of his parish believed in transubstantiation.
And I think that clinched it for me.
I was briefly considering leaving the Catholic Church and going over to the Episcopalians.
But I can not, will not, go to a Church where the pastor of a parish does not give a damn whether or not his flock believes in one of the central truths of the Christian faith. To me, that is inexcusable apathy.
Two Sundays ago, our priest gave a homily where he told us that a poll was taken of Catholics that determined that 2/3 of Catholics don't believe in transubstantiation, the doctrine that the bread and wine of the Eucharist becomes the literal Body and Blood of Christ.
The Catholic priest, normally a mild-mannered fellow, was outraged that so many Catholics did not believe in a fundamental teaching of the Catholic faith.
Tonight, I talked to an Episcopalian priest. I asked him what the Eucharist meant to him. He told me he believes in transubstantiation, but that many laymen in his parish believe the Eucharist is only symbolic.
He told me he didn't care one way or another whether the people of his parish believed in transubstantiation.
And I think that clinched it for me.
I was briefly considering leaving the Catholic Church and going over to the Episcopalians.
But I can not, will not, go to a Church where the pastor of a parish does not give a damn whether or not his flock believes in one of the central truths of the Christian faith. To me, that is inexcusable apathy.