Dakota
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Yeah, I said it and I have my reasons.
I did not grow up in the Catholic church, but after a terrible illness I had at age 8, my mother started taking me to the Catholic church and by 5th grade, I was in Catholic school where I stayed for several years. The Catholic church was very supportive to my parents when I was sick. My first encounter with a Catholic priest was waking up in a bathtub of ice hearing the Commendation of the Sick/Dying while in the hospital.
Amazing how I remember that well.
But anyway, I eventually became very active in the Catholic Church, receiving all the sacraments and later a member.
Years later, something in me snapped and I became disenchanted and disconnected to the church. Later the church was hit with several scandals.
So yes, I am judging the church based on knowledge of the church itself.
But when this Pope came along, he made me shudder. He is trying to be 'wordly/global,' etc. and it is all the things I was taught were wrong giving him the name "The Woke Pope."
He has cancelled several events lately and also saying he couldn't come to the window in the mornings. Now he is having breathing problems.
I have a feeling the next Pope will be worse, and it has only been as I have gotten older that I see the control the Catholic church has in society. To me, it isn't a good look.
I did not grow up in the Catholic church, but after a terrible illness I had at age 8, my mother started taking me to the Catholic church and by 5th grade, I was in Catholic school where I stayed for several years. The Catholic church was very supportive to my parents when I was sick. My first encounter with a Catholic priest was waking up in a bathtub of ice hearing the Commendation of the Sick/Dying while in the hospital.
Amazing how I remember that well.
But anyway, I eventually became very active in the Catholic Church, receiving all the sacraments and later a member.
Years later, something in me snapped and I became disenchanted and disconnected to the church. Later the church was hit with several scandals.
So yes, I am judging the church based on knowledge of the church itself.
But when this Pope came along, he made me shudder. He is trying to be 'wordly/global,' etc. and it is all the things I was taught were wrong giving him the name "The Woke Pope."
He has cancelled several events lately and also saying he couldn't come to the window in the mornings. Now he is having breathing problems.
I have a feeling the next Pope will be worse, and it has only been as I have gotten older that I see the control the Catholic church has in society. To me, it isn't a good look.