NCR: Relationships create church, not loyalty to the institution

Jamie L Manson, WOC board member writes an article about the dilemma of both loving one’s local Roman Cahtolic parish/church while disagreeing with the stances the Roman Catholic Church has taken.

Relationships create church, not loyalty to the institution
Written by Jamie L Manson

They disagree with the Roman Catholic Church’s stances on women, ordination, contraception, and gays and lesbians, but still, they remain faithful to their individual Roman Catholic parishes.

It’s an interesting phenomenon — and surely not new one. But as the institutional church becomes more and more reactionary in its teachings on these issues and the faithful in the U.S. become increasingly more liberal on these issues the connection that Catholics feel to their parish community becomes ever more intriguing.

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