“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)
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
One can readily admit that the Magisterium's manner of expression does not seem very easy to understand at times. It needs to be translated by preachers and catechists into a language which relates to people and to their respective cultural environments. The essential content of the Church's teaching, however, must be upheld in this process. It must not be watered down on allegedly pastoral grounds, because it communicates the revealed truth.
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
It is no surprise to me that we have bishops persecuting Catholic teachers for defending the faith by citing the Bergoglian.
In 2 other stories of the day, reporting on 2 more scandalous interviews, we see just how much he is doing the devil's work:
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