March 28, 2011 – Catechism 787-791

My focus will be on Paragraph 791.  Specifically the part about one body suffering, all suffering.  As a Catholic, I am a Christian.  If the Catholic Church is sick and suffering because of its failures on a human level, other Christian denominations should feel sympathy because we are all one Christian body.  But the opposite is felt.  There is almost glee shown when the Catholic Church is taken down a notch.  I have never understood that.  I don’t feel that other denominations speak Truth the way the Catholic Church does, but I do see the good that comes from them and pray for those that are involve and pray that they continue to grow.  We are all One Body, all the baptized, and as a body we suffer together.  Non-Catholics should mourn the brutal and unfair treatment the Catholic Church receives in the media and feel regret when Her sins are brought to light, not throw a party and kick Her when she is down.