“What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers … For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’” (Luke 23:34)
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.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
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.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
"Only 25% of couples are bonded in a traditional form of marriage". I presume this only applies to the U.S. but it is indicative of the dark times in which we live.
In response to yet another in the daily barrage of Bergoglian scandal, the best I can do is to quote Mundabor:
At this point, words fail. New ones at least. So it is fitting to repeat the old ones:
Distinctions Matter
Distinctions Matter Forward
Missale Romanum
Pre-1951 Calendar