Living a Catholic and Moral Life!

By Deacon Wally Calabrese

"Living a Catholic and Moral Life" brings many of the teachings of the Catholic faith to the reader to assist them with various struggles in the 21st Century. Many young Catholics find difficulty defending the faith, this booklet presents to the reader techniques with developing basic moral arguments, presenting and having dialog in charity, and living a life while keeping to the Catholic faith. This booklet could be utilized in the parish with confirmation classes, RCIA, adult faith formation as well as personal spiritual growth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667823874

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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations have been taken from the Catholic Study Bible of the New American Bible, © 1990 by Oxford University Press, Inc.. All rights reserved.

Excerpts of the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church second edition © 1994, 1997, 2000 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana-United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington D.C. All rights reserved.

Excerpts of the English translation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law © 1983 by Canon Law Society. All rights reserved.

Excerpts of Morality by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (December 7, 2021) All rights reserved

Living a Catholic and Moral Life!

© 2021 Walter Calabrese

All rights reserved

Published by BookBaby Publishing, Pennsauken, New Jersey; 2021

Published in the United States of America

ISBN: 978-1-66782-3-867 (print)

ISBN: 978-1-66782-3-874 (eBook)

Contents

Introduction

Are Catholics Christian?

Brief Understanding of Catholic Morality

Moral Issues for Catholics

Should the Catholic Church Change?

Living a Catholic and Moral Life Means What?

Conclusion

Dedicated to

All the great saints of our faith,

who have inspired so many

to live a Catholic and moral life!

Introduction

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

—Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

This booklet is designed to assist anyone who is interested in living a Catholic and moral life. I say this because I was offering a free online seminar on this topic, and some of the comments that were placed on Facebook were, well, disturbing to say the least. They were disturbing in the sense that it became rather apparent that this topic is so needed today, especially in this twenty-first century, where it appears everything is right, well, unless you are Catholic. If you are Catholic, then anything you say or do is obviously wrong and unchristian, to say the least.

Why is that? Why is it that so many people have issues with the Catholic church? Even Catholics appear to have issues with what they perceive is the teaching of the church, rather than what is the actual teaching of the Catholic church. This is astounding to me. So many people have no idea what the church teaches, and more important, why the church teaches. So many misconceptions. So many yelling for change. Yet, those yelling who have the misconceptions have no idea what they are actually arguing against.

This particular booklet is based upon my presentation for Living a Catholic and Moral Life. There is so much noise out there in society today. White Privilege! Black Lives Matter! Closed or open boarders? Illegal drugs. Sex! (meaning pornography, pedophilia, swingers, etc.). Police brutality (to them and actions of some of them to others). Pro-Choice and Pro-Life (so many get