For the Catholics (collapsed or not) on DU, this gave me a bit of a chuckle today =)

Volaris

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:18 PM
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For the Catholics (collapsed or not) on DU, this gave me a bit of a chuckle today =)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/opinion/09dowd.html?_r=1&ref=maureendowd

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Sanity Claws

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:23 PM
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1. Lapsed Catholics

not collapsed Catholics.

Take it from me, a lapsed Catholic.

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SouthernLiberal

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:56 PM
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6. Lapsed allways seemed whimpy to me

As if we had left the church due to too many late Saturday nights, and might just pick it up again someday, if we could just get up earlier on Sunday.

As for me, I am intentionally no longer Catholic. As my late husband used to say... retired Catholic.

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hootinholler

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Wed Feb-09-11 05:12 PM
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8. All you need is a partner and then you'll be

Co-Lapsed.

-Hoot

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Oceansaway

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:27 PM
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2. hahaha....funny

Forgive Me, Father, for I Have Linked

Our Father, who art in pixels,
linked be Thy name,
Thy Web site come, Thy Net be done,
on Explorer as it is on Firefox.
Give us this day our daily app,
and forgive us our spam,
as we forgive those
who spam against us,
and lead us not into aggregation,
but deliver us from e-vil. Amen.

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defendandprotect

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:28 PM
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3. Keeping the middle-men to "god" in power ...

"If everyone is capable of communicating with deity

and of living divinely empowered lives, the entire

hierarchal, and much of the logical basis of the

Church is rendered irrelevant.

For hierarchally-based institutions that's very thretening -- "

!!

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damntexdem

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:52 PM
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5. Isn't there an app for that?

;-)

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Pterodactyl

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Wed Feb-09-11 09:31 PM
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10. Actually, the belief is that they exercise God's power for Him.

Jesus knew that we wouldn't physically be around all the time, so he empowered his human church with the ability to forgive sins. Which is actually pretty cool because for believers, it gives an access to eternal forgiveness that was not there before.

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damntexdem

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Wed Feb-09-11 03:50 PM
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4. What number does one punch to confess simony?

'Simony is usually defined "a deliberate intention of buying or selling for a temporal price such things as are spiritual of annexed unto spirituals". While this definition only speaks of purchase and sale, any exchange of spiritual for temporal things is simoniacal.'

- The Catholic Encyclopedia

Number 42 on the best-selling app list, huh?

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LibertyLover

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Wed Feb-09-11 04:37 PM
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7. Hmm, sort of reminds me of medieval Penitentials, although in reverse

Those were books that provided guidelines to and questions for priests to ask their flock during confession and what penance to assign if the person admitted to having committed that particular sin. They are interesting to historians as reflections of what may have been happening in society at the time the particular book was written.

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Maeve

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Wed Feb-09-11 05:14 PM
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9. I believe the term is "recovering Catholics" eom

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