Obviously, this is wrong on an incredible number of levels. First I pointed them to an article from Catholic.com officially sanctioned by the Church where it very clearly stated that the Church is NOT against rights for homosexuals and that they should in fact be against anybody who is advocating the unequal treatment of homosexuals. I then posted links to your articles (”definition of a word” and “the intolerant beached whale”) to show them the REAL reason Catholics were against homosexual marriage. Then I pointed out that the Church is not NECESSARILY against CIVIL divorce in EVERY circumstance so long as neither spouse gets remarried until one of them dies, so that’s why the Catholic Church doesn’t want to make divorce illegal. They hold that as long as neither spouse pursues a relationship with anybody else then the sacramental marriage is still valid and that the civil divorce is really just a recognition that they’re no longer living together.

Honestly, before people make straw man arguements against the Church they really need to go to reputable Catholic sources to see what the Church ACTUALLY teaches.

Thanks for following me on Twitter. Your posting is very refreshing. Too often we Catholics ourselves are not the most knowledgeable ourselves about our faith. To the credit of protestants, they follow the bible more while Catholics have placed traditionally more value in the sacraments. I must admit myself being not as knowledgeable as I should regarding Catholicism.

Keep up the wonderful work!

Have a blessed day!

Exactly…an imaginary battle. I am not a cradle Catholic but I wasn’t taught to hate or disbelieve. For me, it was incredibly easy to ‘wrap my head around’ all the doctrine. We don’t constantly attack anyone and yet are continuously attacked. What’s really up with that? Seriously. It’s really sad at best.

That quote from Sheen is one of my favorites. And so relevant to the times. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I am trying to evangelize in similar ways on my own blog http://www.logosandveritas.blogspot.com. Please check it out and pass it along! God Bless

I’m praying for you, please do the same for me.

It was that misinformation that led me to the Catholic Church. I went to an Evangelical web forum to help me rebut Catholic teaching. I took up the challenge of investigating the claims about the Catholic Church and quickly found that this forum was not accurate in its claims. That led me to seriously consider Catholic teachings on their own merit.

Yes, be prepared with a defense, but remember what Jesus said, his sheep know him and hear his voice.

For me it was a matter of getting in touch with history. When I started questioning my protestant roots, the questions I asked myself were “How could God have allowed the Church His Son established to be so wrong for 1500 years? And why did His plan require that Luther, Calvin, Huss (etc.) come along to set it right?”

The answer, of course, was that He didn’t allow it to be rubbish for 1500 years. It had, in fact, been right all along. However, it was a partially human institution and prone to error. Some of which errors Luther rightly pointed out. Unfortunately Luther and the other “reformers” didn’t reform. They left. A horrific error for which the Christian world is still paying.

The Church is not the “Catholic” Church. It’s the Church. Period. The question protestants need to answer is the same I had to answer. “Did God allow a false church for 1500 years and only introduce truth in the mid-sixteenth century”? OR, has the Church been there all along?

It’s not just ignorance of what the Catholics are attempting to teach. It’s ignorance in general.