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Hi Andy,
Thanks for the question.
You said:
I am very lonely and God does not help me. I often use the F-word when speaking with God.
- Why should I even believe in Christianity anymore? What is the "Catholic" view on this?
God does not help you?
- Are you breathing?
- Are you able to have something to eat on a regular basis?
- Do you have some place to sleep?
- Why would you use vulgarity to thank God?
That's like spitting in His Face for allowing you to breathe.
You shouldn't believe in Christianity, unless you believe Jesus was True God and True Man who rose from the dead and came for the salvation of all men, especially YOU.
- What is the Catholic view on this?
The word Catholic means one in totality meaning we don't pick and choose teachings but believe all the officially teachings Our Lord wants us to teach proclaim, and believe. If you are lonely you should get involved in more social activities at a church, parish or other community organization.
God can't help someone, who isn't willing to help themselves.
It's like that story of the guy who was stuck on a desert island.
- A helicopter came to rescue him and he said,
no thanks, God will save me.
- Another plane came over head and said, let us rescue you, and he said,
no thanks, God will save me.
- and finally another Jet ski came by to save the man but he said,
no thanks, God will save me.
Finally, he died and at his particular judgment (One on one with Jesus) Our Lord said, I sent three
people to save you.
Although the issue of being lonely is not raised in the Catechism this is what it says under Human Solidarity:
III. Human Solidarity
1939 The principle of solidarity, also articulated in terms of "friendship" or "social charity," is a direct demand of human and Christian brotherhood.
An error, "today abundantly widespread, is disregard for the law of human solidarity and charity, dictated and imposed both by our common origin and by the equality in rational nature of all men, whatever nation they belong to. This law is sealed by the sacrifice of redemption offered by Jesus Christ on the altar of the Cross to his heavenly Father, on behalf of sinful humanity."
Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, October 20, 1939
1940 Solidarity is manifested in the first place by the distribution of goods and remuneration for work. It also presupposes the effort for a more just social order where tensions are better able to be reduced and conflicts more readily settled by negotiation.
1941 Socio-economic problems can be resolved only with the help of all the forms of solidarity: solidarity of the poor among themselves, between rich and poor, of workers among themselves, between employers and employees in a business, solidarity among nations and peoples. International solidarity is a requirement of the moral order; world peace depends in part upon this.
1942 The virtue of solidarity goes beyond material goods. In spreading the spiritual goods of the faith, the Church has promoted, and often opened new paths for, the development of temporal goods as well. And so throughout the centuries has the Lord's saying been verified: Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well":
For two thousand years this sentiment has lived and endured in the soul of the Church, impelling souls then and now to the heroic charity of monastic farmers, liberators of slaves, healers of the sick, and messengers of faith, civilization, and science to all generations and all peoples for the sake of creating the social conditions capable of offering to everyone possible a life worthy of man and of a Christian.
Pope Pius XII, Discourse, June 1, 1941.
I hope this helps,
Mike
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