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.
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.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
In proclaiming the faith and in administering the sacraments every priest speaks on behalf of Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ.
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.
The Skripal poisoning story will keep going. The whole thing is obviously a hoax as far as I am concerned, not even a false flag but a hoax.
The 'suspects' came out of hiding and gave an interview to Russia Today. While some of the details can certainly be questioned, and the men are elusive, one thing we can be sure of: These men are no intelligence agents.
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