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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
Reply-To: r_catholic-l{at}yahoogroups.com

To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
>s.
> >
> > VH> Bob got rather chapped when I demonstrated his method of
> quoting without
> >
>
>  I noticed that!  The extremism of hard line Trads
>  is very UN Catholic.
>
>  I mentioned "open questions."  One example of that
>  being limbo.  The Church has not thought it necessary
>  to define whether limbo exists.  So, Catholics are free
>  to accept or dismiss without being thought unorthodox.

There is a great deal of latitude in the Catholic Church -- more than most
Protestant churches.

My wife asked me if I believed in the prophesies of Our Lady of Fatima.  I
said it was an open question.  She had a hard time with that, since the
current Pope obviously believes.
> >
> > >
>  Indeed!   Hope your daughter didn't fall for any
>  New Age twaddle!

No, that she avoided.
>
> > SMB> Seems to me your daughter may be gradually coming
> > > back home to the Church.
> > >
> > VH> Sometimes the best thing to do is keep one's mouth shut and
> watch it
> > happen.
> > :-)
> >
>  Very true!  Sometimes I actually get a serious,
>  friendly question about the Church from a non
>  Catholic.  Even a Muslim a time or two.  In those
>  cases I try not to "overload" my answer, suggesting
>  as well they look up books like Fr. Hardons'  THE
>  CATHOLIC CATECHISM.
>
one thing I keep bumping into is the hard-line the church often takes.  She
and our son-in-law had to have their marriage regularized (they were
married in the Episcopal Church) before the baby could be baptized.  In the
literature provided to them, there was a discussion of the Church REFUSING
to baptize a child whose parents (or at least one of them) aren't
practicing Catholics.

To me, that's stupid!

A child should ALWAYS be welcome -- the worst thing that can happen is that
it will fail to grow up as a practicing catholic -- which is exactly what
will happen if the child is NOT baptized!

On the other hand, accepting the child for baptism, and gently suggesting
the parents take a few classes ahead of time, and attend Mass MIGHT bring
the whole family back to the Church.


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