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.
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.
A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
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