tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379975589471525252.post1142361794106639500..comments2024-03-04T12:08:04.758-06:00Comments on Just a Catholic: Non-practicing Catholic?Shane Kaplerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00153846651783354285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379975589471525252.post-90367020566370101962008-07-25T08:17:00.000-05:002008-07-25T08:17:00.000-05:00Casper,Thank you for the comment. In this particu...Casper,<BR/>Thank you for the comment. In this particular case though, your friend's gift of black-and-white doesn't coincide with the Church's own vision on the matter. She views all baptized Catholics as being Catholic unless/until they formally denounce their Faith. We see this at a very surface level when, just this past May, the Vatican Publishing House published a new copy of her Statistical Yearbook,and included the "non-practicing" in her figures. Baptized as Catholic, these brothers and sisters remain part of the Family until they verbally reject their Baptismal identity.Shane Kaplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153846651783354285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-379975589471525252.post-14991656909680799022008-07-24T17:45:00.000-05:002008-07-24T17:45:00.000-05:00A friend of mine once posed that a practicing Cath...A friend of mine once posed that a practicing Catholic <I>is</I> a Catholic and a non-practicing Catholic simply <I>is not</I> Catholic.<BR/><BR/>He had a gift for seeing many things as very definite black-and-white situations instead of as intervening shades of gray.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com