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Originally Posted by wolfmom  Hi ladies! I'm so glad to see many of you feeling positively about the church. I have been catholic all my life but definately have my issues too. I just wanted to share a very interesting blog post that might be interesting to many of you. This is my priest's blog. He is young, energetic, and totally understanding of the difficulties of being in the church in today's culture. The post I'm recommending is the 'Walking a tightrope' one but feel free to enjoy others. Let me know what you think - I'm curious for other people's opinions!
peace and health,
jenny
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Ooh thanks, I will have to check that out.
MommatoC, I know what you are saying because I struggle with the same things. What made me make up my mind was coming to the conclusion I have walked/read about many paths since I was a teen, and I didn't agree with most of them. There was always something that didn't click, whether it be with Judaism and circumcision or Christianity and well, there is a list for me regarding Christianity, Paganism and the lack of authenticity (IME-no flames please but I experienced a lot flakiness, posing/misinformation and us vs.them mentality and I wasn't happy being solitary), or the UU church which I enjoyed but I just felt like I needed something deeper.
I had one of those pivotal moments too where I said, "Screw this, I'm done with the Catholic church." It was midnight mass at Christmas of 1998, I was 19. During the "let us pray" part the priest asked us to pray for the souls of all the Jews that were going to hell because they didn't accept Christ as the messiah and I practically fell out of my pew. I mean really?
What brought me back to RC is that I am a cradle Catholic and when I left the church I know for a fact that I simply didn't know jack about the religion I just left. After I left Catholic school and the Catholic community I had been brought up in it wasn't a part of my life because my parents just didn't continue to raise me in it, the importance just went away. And even when I was searching Paganism many Pagans actually recommended to me over and over again to explore and try to better understand the religion you came from before you discounted it completely. I haven't done that until the last few months when my life went down the crapper and I found myself reverting back to prayers I hadn't said out loud since I was in elementary school. I started feeling like I just needed some place where I could feel safe and just lay down the load so to speak, and that was very much the case for me when I was growing up in an abusive home.
I just felt like there is never going to be any faith that I can agree with 100% but there is one where I feel at home so I might as well just stop fighting it. And one quote I found floating through here in the Spirituality forum here (I cannot remember what thread or who said it I found it in a search) is that you don't have to be a theologian to be a Catholic or something like that. And I really got that. I feel like I needed to stop nit-picking and just go with it if it is working.
There are many other things in my research that is really changing my perspective on the Catholicism and I just can't believe how much of it feels right to me.
: This is a good starting place!
