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.
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.
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
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.
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
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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