To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
One can readily admit that the Magisterium's manner of expression does not seem very easy to understand at times. It needs to be translated by preachers and catechists into a language which relates to people and to their respective cultural environments. The essential content of the Church's teaching, however, must be upheld in this process. It must not be watered down on allegedly pastoral grounds, because it communicates the revealed truth.
Certainly, it is difficult to make the demands of the Gospel understandable to secularized people. But this pastoral difficulty must not lead to compromises with the truth.
“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)
With the letter by the 4 cardinals on the dubia of Amoris Laetitia, I can now confidently declare that we are at the beginning of the end for Bergoglio, the unrelentic heretic attempting to destroy the Church.
There is a disturbing video of a black Hillary Clinton supporter abusing her child because he voted for Donald Trump in the moch school elections. I'll assume that everyone condemns her action so I'll not spend any time on that.
Given Bergoglio's latest cringeworthy rant against those who attempt to live by Christ's teaching, titled “Beneath rigidity there is something else, there is often wickedness” by Vatican Insider, I must agree with Mundabor that Bergoglio is a "lewd old man".
The Bear writes, on Bergoglian mercy and it's tendency to ignore the Gospel:
It isn't an emphasis. It is simple non-Christianity. We've been worrying that Pope Francis isn't Catholic. The Bear must wonder if he is even Christian.
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