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.
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.
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
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.
If there is one thing we have learnt over the past 3 years it is that there is nothing so nonsensical or injurious to the faith that Bergoglio will not utter it.
Today's act of stupidity - actually uttered a few days ago - has him proclaiming Judas to be the victim of the "doctors of the law", as he likes to refer to them. Anyone claiming the man has been misquoted will do well to read the whole thing.
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