Why does the Catholic Church have so many rules and regulations?
Like ones for having sex, marrying, birth control, etc.? I read what one Catholic priest said about these things and it sounds like a lot of rules and regulations. And doesn't the Church keep changing them? Is Christianity like this? Because this is seriously starting to make me lean toward the Christian side. So Catholics, why do you listen to what the Church, Popes, Saints, etc. say? Why don't you just listen to what God says?
When is it okay to disobey authority?
It is ok to disobey authority when by obeying you will be forced to harm someone else or treat someone else in an abusive manner. It is ok to disobey authority when the authority is trying to enforce unjust laws - that is where the role of civil disobedience comes in. I wouldn't ever advocate violence but I would (and have) protested laws and governmental actions that I have considered unjust. It is ok to disobey authority when the authority is requiring you do perform an act (or stop performing an act) which will cause you to do something that is expressly against your religious beliefs - as long as your action or inaction in the name of your religion will not bring harm to another person. Good luck on your paper.
If you talk about a crime in Catholic confession, can the priest report it to the police?
While all the answers are correct, a Priest can not break their oath and discuss anything with anyone including to the Authorities anything that was confessed to him. Although over the years that has been some what controversial. My Grandmother’s brother was a Catholic Priest and for the most part he followed his oath to the letter, However, there was a situation where his humanity changed in that respect. There was a guy who had confessed to multiple murders of children and children still missing. The person who confessed to these crimes was a regular at the church and my Uncle was very torn up about this, he never said anything about the confession with the other Priests but he told me that he prayed out about and what he felt God wanted him to do was to make sure other children would be safe. My Uncle had a friend he went to school with on the Police force and privately told his friend of this confession, his friend kept where he got this information from and started a personal investigation on the man who confessed and as it turned out the man was arrested and convicted. That was the only time my Uncle said he went against is oath and the Church and all they way up to his death he never regretted what he did because he believed that there are circumstances when a Priest should not be bound to this oath. While most Priest would not do what my Uncle did there are some who will regardless of what consequences may befall them with the church.
Why is the Oxford comma called the "Oxford comma"?
It has been called the Oxford or Harvard comma because those two organizations famously promoted it at a time when newspapers routinely omitted it to save line space.It is more properly called the serial comma, and most authorities today agree that it should be used in most cases for two very good reasons. A. It often resolves, but never creates, ambiguity, and therefore is sometimes required. B. Consistency promotes readability. If the serial comma is sometimes clearer, then sometimes omitting it is inherently less clear.There is an exception, naturally. Because English is rather stingy with punctuation, it’s relatively easy to produce sentences muddy with excessive commas. For this reason, many authors believe in omitting commas wherever doing so does not introduce ambiguity—and in many cases in practice, even where it does.Personally, I take a middle ground. If I cannot reasonably simplify or rewrite my prose to eliminate the need for commas that seem to appear in excess, I may omit some non-ambiguous commas. I’m disinclined ever to omit the serial comma, though, except in very short sentences.As always in English, the most important consideration is not what some authority mandates, but what is clear to the reader.
Is it illegal for a rescue group to try to adopt out a biting dog?
I recently had an incident where my dog bit someone on the face which required them to get stitches. I ended up calling the rescue group where I got the dog for advice on what to do since the SPCA was closed. The rescue group told me that I wasn’t required to notify the SPCA or any other authorities about the incident and they took the dog back from us by our request. The group also told us that they were going to take the dog to a specialist to see if the dog can eventually be put back up for adoption. The very next day after the rescue group took the dog back, they had it back up for adoption on their website not stating anything about the dog having biting issues AND they had the same exact profile for the dog that I saw when I first got the dog. Is it illegal for them to do this?
Christians, do you desire to serve others?
We are called to be not only hearers of the Word, but doers of the Word. I have no criticism for you Brother. What you have written is true.