A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
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.
In proclaiming the faith and in administering the sacraments every priest speaks on behalf of Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ.
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.
In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
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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