Let The Church Say Change

Simon nodded at Sister Hicks, who was sitting in the front pew as well. Sister Hicks was decked out from head to toe in white, from her huge hat that looked like wings coming off the side of her head to her white stockings and scuffed-up white pumps. Loretta tried to stifle a smile, because Simon often complained about Sister Hicks, saying she was like the student in class who always had the answer to everything. Loretta had to admit Sister Hicks drove everyone at the church crazy, but she was the original pastor's widow, so people still gave her respect. Has everyone found the verse?

Loretta gently turned to see what he was looking at. She shook her head. Their nineteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, was trying to sneak in late -- again. That meant there would be a big argument right before Sunday dinner. Simon was just about fed up with Rachel.

She'd stay out partying all Saturday night, and then couldn't drag herself out of bed to make it to church on Sunday morning. Simon always complained that if it weren't for Loretta keeping Rachel's two kids every weekend, his grandchildren probably wouldn't make it to church either. Loretta tried not to let Rachel's entrance sour her mood, but she couldn't help but exhale in frustration. Not only was Rachel late, but she had the audacity to come into church with sunglasses on. Simon was going to blow a gasket.

Not that it would do any good. Even though Rachel was raised in the church, getting her there before the benediction was almost impossible. Loretta snapped back to the sermon, which Simon had begun as he tried to mask the scowl on his face. Simon looked at Sister Hicks and forced a smile. Loretta knew exactly what her husband was thinking.

He wanted Sister Hicks to shut up and let him preach. They went through this same routine every Sunday. Loretta had thought Simon would have been used to it by now, but he still complained about it after every service.

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Loretta hoped Rachel was listening, because Lord knew she had done more than her share of dirty deeds. Simon near 'bout had a heart attack when Rachel turned up pregnant at fifteen. Then she went out and had another child three years later.

Simon would barely speak to her the entire time she was pregnant. Not only was he thoroughly embarrassed, but he was extremely disappointed in their daughter. But more than anything, Loretta knew Simon was hurt by his daughter's actions, feeling that he had failed her. Although that's something he'd never, ever admit. Loretta tried to get thoughts of her family drama out of her mind and focus all her attention on her husband.

He was getting worked up now; beads of sweat were trickling across his brow. Here are some examples:. And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one New Living Translation. Don't allow us to be tempted.

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Keep us from being tempted and protect us from evil Contemporary English Version. Nobody is definitively in the right or in the wrong. Yet another case of the media doing a sloppy, incompetent job. Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ.

Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith.

Eventually, he entered the Catholic Church. This is a classic case of the pope saying something and the media distorting it.

Newspapers and websites erupted over the weekend with headlines like: How did all this start? What did the French church do? It depends on what kind of translation you are doing. Theologically speaking, God does not tempt anyone. Thus the book of James states: The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: More than 2, years ago, the machine that became the Catholic church offered itself as the protector of those values; with every week that passes its credentials seem to be getting thinner.

Francis is trying to rebuild his church, but to say this is a mammoth task is an understatement, and all the indications are that, to use his own analogy, he seems to be rowing his boat in one direction while others on board are pulling the oars the other way. Then there are the reforms he seems to be pushing for, such as the ordination of married men this in a church where there is no requirement for celibacy, but where celibacy has long been the norm, and which is now faced with a growing shortage of recruits to the priesthood , and the ordination of women to the diaconate this is a rung below the priesthood, and it seems fairly clear that in the distant past, women fulfilled this role — so why not again?

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On married priests, Francis has opened the door for further debate ; on women deacons he has established a commission. So far precisely nothing has come of either— but there is a lot of noise inside the church against these sorts of changes, and it seems pretty clear that plenty of those same bureaucrats who are busily trying to undermine the child protection commission would roll up their sleeves to prevent the ordination of either married men to the priesthood, or women to the diaconate. So four years on, what is the Argentinian pope going to do next?