It is sad that there are what you might call professional Catholics who make a living on their Catholicism, but in whom the spring of faith flows only faintly, in a few scattered drops. We must really make an effort to change this.
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.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
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 proclaiming the faith and in administering the sacraments every priest speaks on behalf of Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ.
Rorate Caeli asks what the true intention of the 2018 synod - which is claimed to be on youth and vocation - is.
I dare not venture a guess, but knowing the diabolical intentions of the man in charge, and his incessant hachinations to pervert the faith, we can be sure that the intentions are as diabolical and sinister as they get.
Distinctions Matter
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