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.
Evil too, will always be part of the mystery of the Church. And when we see what men, what the clergy have done in the Church, then that is nothing short of proof that he [Christ] founded and upholds the Church. If she were dependent on men, she would long since have perished.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."
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.
I must admit that I found it almost humorous to see Steve Skoject of all people titling a piece "Papal Letter Appearing to Support Communion for Divorced & Remarried Emerges".
The confirmations in the Tridentine Rite in Copenhagen fills my heart with immense joy.
These truly are the seeds of a Christian and Catholic revival.
It is with great sadness that we note that Bergoglio is on a roll. His assaults on the integrity of the faith seem to be gaining pace. His words seem to be all the more incoherent, as are the excuses used to defend him.
In "New Coke: If Today’s Catholics Were In Charge", we have a very humourous take on the collapse of the Catholic Church under the Novus Ordo regime.
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