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.
Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world.
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.
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.
It is sad that there are what you might call professional Catholics who make a living on their Catholicism, but in whom the spring of faith flows only faintly, in a few scattered drops. We must really make an effort to change this.
There are many problems with sedevacantism, but the major one is assuming that a Pope has to be faultless. The Pope is a sinner, just like the rest of us, and part of the problem with sedevacantism is that it rests on the assumption that a Pope who has faults cannot be a legitimate Pope, which is of course, non-sense and goes against much of what the Church teaches with regards to sin and concupiscence.
A very interesting and worthy-of-your-time article by Michael Brendan Dougherty entitled " Catholics must learn to resist their popes — even Pope Francis - Too many are becoming party apparatchiks ". My only beef with it is taht it should have replaced the texts "even Pope Francis" with "especally Pope Francis".
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