“If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
Celibacy is always, shall we say, an affront to what man normally thinks. It is something that can be done, and is only credible, if there is a God and if celibacy is my doorway into the kingdom of God.
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.
A very interesting and worthy-of-your-time article by Michael Brendan Dougherty entitled " Catholics must learn to resist their popes — even Pope Francis - Too many are becoming party apparatchiks ". My only beef with it is taht it should have replaced the texts "even Pope Francis" with "especally Pope Francis".
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