— Condoms = more promiscuity = spread of HIV increased
— Condoms don’t always work = spread of HIV not always prevented
— No sex outside marriage = spread of HIV prevented
— Chastity within a marriage where one partner has HIV = spread of HIV prevented
— Which position is more responsible? “Fidelity and, where necessary, chastity” or “Condoms for all!”

““Individuals who vote for abortion have excluded themselves from communion.” So, according to this “logic,” it is not the Catholic Church who has denied the sacraments to wayward politicians, it is the politicians themselves.”

How is this illogical? You commit mortal sin –> you’re not in a state of grace –> you can’t receive communion - in other words, you’ve exCOMMUNIcated yourself.

Most effective solution to HIV problem = chastity and fidelity

The Catholic Church is clearly speaking from both sides of it mouth when it says it supports marriage but hands out false annulments and encourages divorce in the process. There is no requirement for reconciliation of the valid sacramental spouses when the tribunal reaches the conclusion that a marriage is valid but when the opposite conclusion is reached the “freed” spouses are allowed to marry with the blessing of the Church. In fact, the Catholic Church encourages scandal and wrongdoing by accepting couples living together who are guilty of public adultery when they agree to “live together as brother and sister” for the good of their children created through adultery. No consideration at all is given to the children of the abandoned sacramental marriage, who are treated as inconsequential and less important or not important at all by such a Vatican “compromise”. This also gives the official Catholic Church blessing to the continued violation of the sacramental spouse who is often abandoned and civilly persecuted by the “adulterous” spouse, whom the Catholic Church now encourages to deny any justice to the innocent, wrongly abandoned, spouse, “for the good of the children” of adultery and completely in violation of the moral theological law forbidding evil to be done for the sake of good.

The Catholic Church is Christ’s Church and is not ever bound by false constructs like the ‘Separation of Church and State”, which in many instances is constantly violated and ever expanding through the all powerful “state” and its various organs but it should better police itself for internal consistancy. Justice is required of the Catholic Church as it governs itself and those who call themselves Catholic. But in this regard the Catholic Church is a dismal and scandalous failure. Abortion is but one Pro-Life issue. At least an aborted child dies in God’s grace. An abandoned spouse suffers a lifetime of terrible unending injustices at the hands of BOTH Church and State, as well as at the hands of an adulterous spouse. Their suffering often leads to many abandoning the Catholic Church and losing their faith, which should be of a GREATER concern to the Catholic Church than the mere LIVES of the unborn. As has ALWAYS been taught by the Catholic Church, the loss of salvation is infinitely worse that the loss of a life.

The actions of the Catholic Church since it opened the floodgates of easy annulments has endangered the souls of many abandoned spouses and this is openly denied by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and shows the moral and ethical bancruptcy of the recent generations of Catholics both religious and lay, among the worst of which are the current and immediate past Popes, who have done nothing to address this gravely injust situation except talk about it.

Your comments betray your abysmal lack of knowledge of the Catholic Church, its history and its culture. You ask - “please tell me the attraction to praying in a language and in words that are not your own?” Well it’s more than language, it’s the Rite - Try attending one with an open mind. As far as abortion is concerned, this is a LIFE issue. And God is THE CREATOR thus He is Life and Love. Murdering children and calling it a right is wrong-headed. Check what the Bible teaches of those who call right wrong, and wrong right.

Catholic politicians who are pro-choice are responding to their conscience which says that they cannot force their own moral values on other people, particularly non-catholics, and that prohibiting abortion does not prevent abortions but leads to preventable death and injury.

The impact of current Catholic doctrine is arguably a greater evil, but the clergy wash their hands of the onsequences of their lobbying.

In a confessional Catholic state, the state has the right, though not the duty, to suppress public non-Catholic religious ceremonies. IIn a Catholic confessional state, the government protects Catholicism and ensures that the sthe state’s laws jibe with what the Catholic Church teaches about morality.

The Church ought to excommunicate pro-abortion poltcians because abortion is murder and because those politicians commit sacrilege when they receive Holy Communication.

The Catholic Church has every right to speak on behalf of the spiritual welfare of their flocks. I think secularists should check their secularism at the door. Maybe we could deal with a little separation of secularism and state.

The only thing young people have to learn from secularism is about how to be a bunch of narcissistic, egotistical hedonists.