{"id":36017,"date":"2012-06-11T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=36017"},"modified":"2014-12-30T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:25:19","slug":"periodically-this-question-erupts-in-comboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/06\/periodically-this-question-erupts-in-comboxes.html","title":{"rendered":"Periodically this question erupts in comboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A reader asks:<\/p>\n

First needs to be answered the question \u201cWhat is a Catholic\u201d \u2013 and the answer needs to be canonical, not just various shades of philosophical. Is heretical the opposite of Catholic?<\/p>\n

Mark \u2013 I\u2019d love it if you would weigh in here a bit (not a jolly joke I promise ) since my knowledge of the issue is rather slim once I started to think about it for longer than a moment\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heretical is a piece <\/em>of Catholic. Catholic is believing and trying to do what the Church teaches. As far as I know, nobody is Catholic, including, emphatically, me. That\u2019s why I judge *ideas* as Catholic or non-Catholic but don\u2019t waste time judging people as Catholic or non-Catholic. As I say, There Ain\u2019t No Pure Church<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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