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.
Celibacy is always, shall we say, an affront to what man normally thinks. It is something that can be done, and is only credible, if there is a God and if celibacy is my doorway into the kingdom of God.
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.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
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.
With public money going to fund university employees like this woman, which souls black as night, it's very evident the society they serve is not heading in an upward trajectory.
If Hans Küng is happy with the hierarchy of the Church, then the hierarchy of the Church cannot be up to any good. I was, however, impressed that we have at least one bishop in the U.K.
A very good piece on the actions of the U.S. in the Ukrainian crisis asking whether the masters are incompetent. The simple answer to his question would appear to be a resounding "yes!"
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