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.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
Assuredly, the word of truth can be painful and uncomfortable. But it is the way to holiness, to peace, and to inner freedom. A pastoral approach which truly wants to help the people concerned must always be grounded in the truth. In the end, only the truth can be pastoral.
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.
In yet another idiotic move, the post-Vatican II Church has decided to celebrate the division that came about as a result of Lutheranism, having issued a communique entitled " FROM CONFLICT TO COMMUNION Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017". The documente was evidently issued last year. I was worried this would happen.
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