I had become a Catholic four years ago and I am very happy with this new change. Three days after I was welcomed into the Catholic Church, the Bishop who hosted the new Catholics, was arrested for pedophilia. The whole experience was a terrible shame. I have been dating a Cradle Catholic for seven years, who has turned away from the church. He is very judgemental of others and is angry at the priests who accept the Gays to receive the Eucharist and to those priests who have turned to pedophilia and greed. I had explained to him that priests are of men without sin. We are far from perfect and he, too, is far from perfect. But he had turned his back from the Church, anyway. He is filled with anger on many things. He has, on countless times, turned his anger on me. It is all verbal abuse. I find him extremely controlling and unhappy. He resents me when I go to choir rehearsal and when I go to church mass. The irony of it all, is that he was my key supporter when I was attending RCIA. My prayer request is that I need the strength to pull away, to continue my life without him and that I become a confident person on my own. Included in my prayer request, is that the man I love for seven years will somehow have a change in heart to return to Christ our Lord.
June 26, 2007
