No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
“What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers … For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’” (Luke 23:34)
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
originally published: October 31, 2014 UPDATED JUNE 6, 2016
'Pope Francis' – A Chronological List of Quotes and Headlines
If there is one thing we have learnt over the past 3 years it is that there is nothing so nonsensical or injurious to the faith that Bergoglio will not utter it.
Today's act of stupidity - actually uttered a few days ago - has him proclaiming Judas to be the victim of the "doctors of the law", as he likes to refer to them. Anyone claiming the man has been misquoted will do well to read the whole thing.
Bergoglio speaks, chaos follows; the man is a one-person hurricane.
A few good things from the interview:
A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It’s) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.
Just another month of horrors in the decadent, leftist, politically correct and increasingly Islamised Sweden.
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