The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
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.
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.
“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.”
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
I thought I was the only one who referred to Dolan as Cheesehead Dolan, but Steve Skojec over at OnePeterFive sees it fit to call that big buffoon 'Cardinal “Cheeshead” Dolan' (spelling mistake left in) as well.
The name is very fitting, although insulting to cheesse.
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