“If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
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.
Not unexpectedly, Cardinal Kasper's rather public act of rebel-rousing heresy has caused a lot of debate. Father Brian Harrison responds succintly about what is at stake, and Dr.
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