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.
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.
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.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.
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".
Today is the Octave Day of Easter, Low Sunday as it is also know in the Tridentine rite, and also Divine Mercy Sunday, in accordance with the wishes of Pope John Paul II, who has today been raised to a saint, and is to be know as Saint John Paul II.
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