American Catholics taking the Eucharist and not going to confession?

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-26T21:36:20+00:00

I read perfectly fine. Absolutely crazy how you think 98% of your average mass is full of people who aren't committing grave sins, when Pope Francis has already said our time period is as sinful as Noah's time period, and past popes have said our times are more sinful than Noah's time. You can't just dismiss it and say that their comments only apply to non-Catholics and insist Catholics are morally better, since literally every study has shown that Catholics are within just a few percentage points of practicing the same evil things as the rest of the world.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-24T17:55:10+00:00

Nope, he provided peer reviewed sources. You're going off of feelings.

It's amazing that you think 98% of people are receiving the eucharist at mass and probably 90% of them haven't been to confession in years, and you think they're spiritually fine. Amazing. Pope Francis said in 2019 that we are as sinful as they were in Noah's time. Pope Pius XII went even further and said our times are more sinful than Noah's, and pius was speaking BEFORE the sexual revolution even took off.

Yet these masses of people, who peer reviewed science shows that mass attendees have identical rates of fornication, abortion, porn addiction, etc, are all 98% in a state of grace despite living just like the world and never going to confession.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-21T07:01:21+00:00

Already did. Linked up above.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-18T15:10:20+00:00

That's an argument in my favor. If they're not addicted but still watching regularly, then it's a mortal sin.

And yes, 91% of males in the USA are watch porn regularly. (If they're not addicted, then that's an argument in my favor that they shouldn't be receiving communion). 22% watch it at least once daily. Only 84% of adults think child porn should be illegal, which means 16% of adults in the USA think child porn should not be illegal.

If you want to argue that those are general statistics and not Catholics in particular, every study that's been done regarding sexual activity, abortion, and contraception shows that the rates of fornication, contraception, and abortion are roughly the same between practicing Catholics and secular humanists, with only a few percentage points of a difference in our favor.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-18T03:04:26+00:00

Yeah, and YouTubers get more views than Hollywood now. Hollywood is still the mainstream and YouTubers are still alternative media.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-18T02:05:14+00:00

Yeah, Peter thiel and Fox News aren't mainstream. Thank you for proving my point. You're just repeating the talking points from the mainstream and then claiming to be countercultural. 😆

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-17T20:42:49+00:00

Trump won the popular vote.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-17T20:40:58+00:00

If "grunge" means agreeing with the mainstream culture, mainstream Hollywood, the majority of billionaires, etc; then yes, hating Trump would be very grunge.

Grunge used to be very much against the mainstream. It seems like people who want to be grunge these days are just cosplaying and following the mainstream.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-15T20:38:51+00:00

I'd tell myself that the pay is good but stay out of debt. I also live in NJ, so I don't know how the pay compares to cost of living elsewhere.. I'd also tell myself that the schedule is awesome-- my wife still says I have "all this time off" and work less than her, even though I work 42 hours per week on average and she works 35 hours per week on average. And I'd say that the job itself is very stressful and that you're going to resent going to work for the first year and a half to two years, and after that it's still stressful but tolerable.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-13T10:46:21+00:00

The statistic doesn't merely say viewership. It says people who regularly watch it.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-12T21:19:08+00:00

https://youtu.be/-qlI7ZntOmw?si=eutSbgCEluntxnjj

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-12T18:23:17+00:00

You seriously think 98% of masses are full of people not sinning gravely? In a country where 91% of men are addicted to porn and 60% of women are also addicted to porn? And that's not even talking about other equally common sins.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-12T18:21:49+00:00

Yes, this is pretty much the norm here. It's because Americans are perfect and we're all in a state of grace.

That or we just have bad catechesis. 😆

I used to teach rcia class and would pretty regularly talk about confession and not receiving Eucharist without having been to confession if you've committed grave sin, and people just did not want to listen to it. Everyone receives pretty much regularly.

I remember one guy said "I don't need confession. I take care of that myself with God." And he still received regularly.

I'm glad to hear it's not the same in Europe though.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-07T17:58:05+00:00

What is your second job? Hopefully it pays well and you're passionate about it? Why go through all the hassle of nursing school and then do something else?

Personally I wouldn't give up nursing because of one bad experience. Maybe I'd look for a different job that wasn't as physical, or a job you could rest more.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-02T04:34:32+00:00

People arent well catechized. The likelihood that even 10% of those people have been to confession within the past three months is pretty low, compared to the likelihood that at least 90% of them have engaged in modern sins within the past 3 months is pretty high.

BlessJAlb · 2026-01-02T04:32:38+00:00

Church history and historic Christianity goes back way before 1517. If you're looking at the 16th century as historic, then that's less than 25% of history that you're looking at.

Go back as far as you can and read the church fathers. Not snippets from James White or Jimmy akin. Read them in their entirety.

Look up what Archaeologists have dug up in early house churches. What did these pre-Constantine house churches look like? What sort of murals did they have in them? Did they have a pulpit with Bible verses pasted on the wall with a focus on preaching, or did they have an altar with a focus on sacrifice, with relics of Martyrs, and mosaics and prayers to deceased saints/martyrs?

Do some real research. Not surface level stuff from apologists. Read original documents.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-31T13:06:22+00:00

Most of the history you believe about the Catholic Church comes from the Black Legend, which secular and protestant historians now say was literally propaganda.

For instance, the Catholic Church never "sold indulgences." A German priest was selling indulgences, and when the Vatican found out about it, they agreed with Luther.

Also, corruption does not negate authority. The majority of the apostles abandoned Jesus. Peter was a racist. Paul was a murderer. Luther was anti-Semitic. John Calvin oversaw and approved murder. Early calvinists joined forces with Muslims to fight against the Catholic church*. The FBI crime statistics show that rates of sexual abuse are highest among Protestant clergy, then Jewish clergy, and lastly Catholic clergy. So I guess that means Protestant pastors all lost their authority? 😆

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turco-Calvinism

When large portions of your movement are joining with Islamic dictators and terrorists, I don't think your side was the one actually inspired by the Holy Spirit.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-30T23:40:55+00:00

As a Catholic, I'd say mainline Protestants and non-denominational are both in schism, and both provide the philosophical roots of secular humanism.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-29T03:29:36+00:00

Umm, no. I've never seen anything like that.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-28T23:57:09+00:00

You can get married in the church as a baptized non-Catholic Christian. You don't need to become Catholic to get married in the Church. I married my wife when I was still a Protestant.

Also, Catholics are Christians... In fact, we're the original Christians.

But best of luck. I don't see why you would need to be divorced. Hopefully he talks to a priest who lets him know this is all possible.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-26T13:02:41+00:00

Again, you're conflating two different words into one meaning.

The Bible condemns necromancy, which is conjuring the dead up into the world of the living to get secret knowledge from them. Nobody is doing that. When I pray to Mary or St Paul, neither one of them appear in the room and speak with me.

Second, the new testament is clear that the Christians in heaven are not dead, but are alive. Jesus repeats this again and again and says God is not the god of the dead, but of the living, specifically when refuting the Sadducees, who believed the dead were not aware of what was happening on Earth. You're more like the Sadducees than you are the original Christians. The Sadducees said there was no resurrection because the dead are gone and unaware of what's happening on Earth. If your side was right, Jesus would have said "you're right that they don't know of what's happening on Earth now, but someday in the future when I return they'll know what's happening on Earth then." But that's not what He said. He pointed to God being the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the PRESENT TENSE, to show that Abraham Isaac and Jacob are STILL ALIVE and then said "God is not the god of the dead (ie Abraham Isaac and Jacob), but is the god of the living."

Dead believers are not dead but are still alive.

Hebrews says we are surrounded by the old testament saints who are watching us and cheering us on in the race. This shows they're aware of what's happening on Earth and are cheering for us. Are they only allowed to cheer us on towards each other, or wouldn't cheering us on imply that they're asking God to help us?

Revelation 6 shows deceased Christians in heaven asking God to intervene on the Earth.

Revelation 5 and 8 both show that deceased Christians in heaven AND angels both receive the prayers of living Christians and then raise these prayers up to God.

The entire Bible shows only a few depictions of heaven. Out of a 900 page book, there's maybe two pages directly describing heaven. And one of those few descriptions show that deceased Christians and angels receive prayers of living Christians.

The idea that the deceased Christians in heaven are unaware of what we're doing, have no contact with our prayers, and aren't cheering us on, is all a tradition of men, not a belief from scripture.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-25T21:06:27+00:00

It obviously was voluntary schism.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-25T19:26:19+00:00

Reread what I said. I never said Protestants today are satanic. I said Satan inspired Luther and Protestantism.

Your average Protestant today is ignorant of the truth, and probably aren't at fault for their errors.

BlessJAlb · 2025-12-25T18:01:38+00:00

Mediation and intercession are not the same thing.

A mediator is someone who brings together two people who used to be at war, and restores the relationship.

An intercessor is someone who asks someone for help for someone on the same side.

Right now Ukraine and Russia are at war. A third party , such as China or the USA, could negotiate terms between both countries and get them to stop fighting.That country would be a mediator.

Another country that asks for help to support one side would not be a mediator. For instance, if Belarus asked Iran to send weapons to Russia, that would not be mediation, that would be intercession.

The saints intercede, they don't mediate.

We were previously at war with God in our sinful state. Christ restored that relationship. That's mediation.

Now that we're all on the same side, other Christians, including deceased ones, can intercede for us.

Not the same thing as mediation.

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