Hello everybody, Kelandis here your friendly neighborhood Catholic. I've noticed through my time on the internet that the Catholic faith can often be misinterpretted, or misunderstood. I am here to try to clear things up.

Just ask me a question and i will do my utmost best to andswer it. I may not know the answer to every question, as I am not a priest or anything like that but i will do what i can.

Why is that you follow the rule that homosexuality is 'wrong' but not everything else?Like- If a woman is not virgin when getting married, she must be stoned to death? Or you can't get bowl cuts, or any of these:
Don't let cattle graze with other kinds of Cattle (Leviticus 19:19)

Don't have a variety of crops on the same field. (Leviticus 19:19)

Don't wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19)

Don't cut your hair nor shave. (Leviticus 19:27)

Any person who curseth his mother or father, must be killed. (Leviticus 20:9) Have you ever done that?

If a man cheats on his wife, or vise versa, both the man and the woman must die. (Leviticus 20:10). I wonder if Dr. Laura would like that one to be enforced?

If a man sleeps with his father's wife... both him and his father's wife is to be put to death. (Leviticus 20:11)

If a man sleeps with his wife and her mother they are all to be burnt to death. (Leviticus 20:14)

If a man or woman has sex with an animal, both human and animal must be killed. (Leviticus 20:15-16). I guess you should kill the animal since they were willing participants. Are they crazy?

If a man has sex with a woman on her period, they are both to be "cut off from their people" (Leviticus 20:18)

Psychics, wizards, and so on are to be stoned to death. (Leviticus 20:27)

If a priest's daughter is a whore, she is to be burnt at the stake. (Leviticus 21:9)

People who have flat noses, or is blind or lame, cannot go to an altar of God (Leviticus 21:17-18)

Anyone who curses or blasphemes God, should be stoned to death by the community. (Leviticus 24:14-16)

Don't let cattle graze with other kinds of Cattle (Leviticus 19:19)

Or these:
Anyone who dreams or prophesizes anything that is against God, or anyone who tries to turn you from God, is to be put to death. (Deuteronomy 13:5)

If anyone, even your own family suggests worshipping another God, kill them. (Deuteronomy 13:6-10)

If you find out a city worships a different god, destroy the city and kill all of it's inhabitants... even the animals. (Deuteronomy 13:12-15)

Kill anyone with a different religion. (Deuteronomy 17:2-7)

ok, wow thats alot of questions.

The whole homosexual thing is that we believe that a pairing of a man and woman to be a true and natural form of love. So basically, we should not be gay or lesbian but, others who are not Catholic and choose to do so may. My personal belief is that you do not have to be Catholic to go to heaven, and that it is not my place to judge other people, only God can decide.
All of those are old Jewish laws which were summarized in the 10 commandments. Jesus then summarized the Ten Commandments with this following passage:

25And one day an authority on the law stood up to put Jesus to the test. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to receive eternal life?”

26What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you understand it?”
27He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Love him with all your strength and with all your mind.’(Deuteronomy 6:5) And, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ ”

28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do that, and you will live.”.

And remember, we believe that even if you break those rules, you can be forgiven if you truly repent. There is always a way to come back to God as sin is breaking your relationship with God. Reconciliation is you taking the step to come back.

If i did not answer your questions satisfactorily please tell me.

>>4 Why do you, or any other Catholic, take pride in a religion that you don't honestly follow? You say you can repent, but in reality, it is clearly stated that those people should die. No where does it say that they have a chance before death to repent.

Most people don't follow any of these laws because they're not socially acceptable, but isn't that your faith? Why should society matter if you're truly one with your religion?

If you are referring to the old Jewish laws, i already stated that those are outdated. Please do not think of us as Fundamentalists(people who follow the Bible word for word). We do not follow those laws because Jesus told us they are unnecessary.

There are many chances to repent your sins. You may go to reconciliation as often or as little as you like, but if you are guilty of a mortal sin and have not gone to reconciliation then you cannot receive the body and blood of Jesus.

Also, if you feel you are on your deathbed, or are about to go through with a risky surgery or something you may receive the Sacrament known as the anointing of the sick. It cleanses you of all your sins so that you may die innocent.

I can not speak for any other Catholic than for myself.

Sin eaters, is that a thing?

>>4 You did not answer my question at all.

No sin eating is not a practice by the Catholic church. In fact, I've never heard of that practice before, and it sounds really weird.

In the Catholic Church you meet privately with either your pastor or another priest. In this meeting you state all of the sins that you have committed since your last Confession and say whether you wish to repent or not. It is a grave sin to lie to a priest during confession, or to hold some sins from him.

You can trust a priest with this information because when they are ordained(made priests) they take on many vows. One such vow is that they will never tell another person what is said during that meeting. It is similar to medical doctors keeping details of their patients discrete. The major difference is that if a priest does tell someone they will be stripped of their office and excommunicated from the catholic church.

I know i kinda digressed there but i feel like i answered your question. If you don't, please say so, and anyone else with questions please state them i am happy to talk.

>>8 Well, which part of your question the homosexual part or the part about the old Jewish laws? I feel that it was kinda a question in two parts.

>>10 I was asking why that when questioned, people say that homosexuality is bad because it says so in the bible, yet in the same set of laws, (the laws I mentioned above are some) yet people do not follow them because they say they are old and meaningless, therefore should not be followed.Yet they follow the law that homosexuality is wrong.
Why is this? Why can you simply pick and choose in an argument what should be followed?

"All of those are old Jewish laws... If you are referring to the old Jewish laws, i already stated that those are outdated..."

Why do you keep blaming Jews on every stupid law? These things are in the Bible. In fact, they're in the Bible for a reason. You have yet to even answer any of my questions.

Why aren't you following what's in the Bible? If it's your religion, why aren't you following it?

"Please do not think of us as Fundamentalists(people who follow the Bible word for word). We do not follow those laws because Jesus told us they are unnecessary."

Ah-huh. And would you mind telling me... when did Jesus tell you that? Jesus was Jewish, and he had no part in making the Bible. Like >>11 brought up - what do you do, pick and choose what ideals you like? No, it's your religion. You can't pick and choose; they're ideas set in stone, and it's like a slap in the face to those who first created your religion to not follow the rules they created. Isn't that so?

>>11 and >>12 I apologize for making everything more confusing, but i believe that i finally have your answer. Please disregard the parts about Jewish law in >>4 and >>6, that was incorrect.

Here is an answer that comes partially from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

We believe that the old law is holy, good and spiritual, but we believe it to be imperfect. It does not give us the strength and grace of the Holy Spirit. According to Saint Paul, the old law's special function is to reveal and condemn what is sinful.

This sets us up for the New Law which is laid down by Jesus in various parts of the Gospels, and more in the Sermon on the Mount specifically. This new law is a law of love. It does not set up new precepts for us to follow, but helps us understand the core attitudes behind how we act. It can be summarized in these three Gospel teachings.

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind"(Lk 10:27)
"Do to others what you would have done to you."(Mt 7:12)
"Love one another as i love you."(Jn 15:12)

These summarize all of the Ten Commandments. All of the 613 laws, some of which you have brought up, were created to suit the needs of the Hebrews in their time frame. They were also all built to support the Ten Commandments. But with the New Law of Love, such extremes are no longer necessary. We are told to no longer condemn sinners, but to forgive them and embrace them as Jesus himself did. Anyone who feels the need to punish someone extraordinarily (stoning, killing, ostracizing) is stepping outside of the bounds of Catholic teaching.

I hope this helps to clear up my horrible explanations. Please ask more if i did not answer completely.

>>12Thank you, BarabiSama, I was waiting for her/him to realize or be told those were straight from the bible.

I knew they were from the bible the whole time, they kinda have the reference (book Chapter:verse) thing going on

Sin eating was something I read in a book...something the Catholic Church hated...I was just kind of hoping it was a real thing.

well from what i looked up it was a real thing for a time, but it was highly heretical.

>>17 How could I become a sin eater?
I don't really believe in the stuff but I figure enough people do believe it for me to make a little extra cash. ;)

>>18 Actually, like no people believe it anymore and if anyone still does it would be in the UK lol