Peter,

Thank you for your kind response. I respect you and appreciate your honesty. I also appreciate the fact that you shared your own personal "Catholic" history. You're a good comrade here on PR! Thanks for sharing so personally.

Liz

Quote Originally Posted by Flashram_Peter_AUS
Liz,

Wasn't looking for a Religious War at all and I think you know that.

Just so you know, I was born a Catholic, been a Catholic and will Die a Catholic as I think will my children and wife as well. I was introduced to Catholocism by my parents as I think a lot of Catholics were and knew no other way at all, other than there were other religions. I believe this to be the case with a majority of Catholics and that I think is the thing I find the most frustrating with Catholic Teachings and old ideas. I went to a Catholic School, served mass from the Cardinal of Sydney down to the most junior of Priests, day in day out and three times on Sunday, for most of my young adolescent life, until I left school and enter the world as a young Adult.

My mother was bought up by the Good Shepard Nuns in Sydney until she was a young adult and left to get married shortly after the war finished, hence my involvement in serving as an Altar Boy.

I have know many Nuns, Priests of all levels, Christian Brothers etc and have found many and varied thoughts amongst them. I have seen many move from their vocations and enter the other side as lay people, getting married and moving on, often away from the vocations that they dearly loved, but were unable to continue in, because of the nature of the rules of the faith. This I think is the sad side of what I was refering to. Also many have expressed in their own ways similar thinking and ideas that I said above.

But as I said that they were and are my thoughts as I think a Catholic trying to cope in this modern era of time, which is so short.

I know I couldn't face the sort of life style that you have, and many others have, as I just haven't that in my makeup to do that, but did try to assist by doing Nursing which I think is the best profession in the world, although the most underpaid and also the unkindness to those that are nurses when they get sick themselves. A bit like you cope with it yourself and we don't want to know about it, as we have others to look after if that makes sense.

Again not trying to get into anything here at all, as I respect the views/ideas/feelings of others very well and will always do that.

It is interesting to me what others think around the world, and I have been watching the news reports since early this morning our time seeing and hearing the feelings expressed by others around the world, which have reflected some of the comments I have made.

Take care and as always I hope you remain safe and well.