“Be merciful, as your Father is merciful, which is in heaven ", not as pleasing to the world, but as God
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo
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Father I read on page 19. So even those who suffer from an addiction from which it is’ hard to get rid of, and fight against it, aware that she is morally wrong, she has a chance to save herself?
Dad,then when the Pope says:” who am I to judge a gay” It is mercy? “Who am I to judge?”
But the Church knows well what is right and what is wrong.. Why Jesus and Saint Paul condemn sodomites.
silvia face,
at the time I wrote an article that I should look for among the several hundreds in the de archive The Island of Patmos, I'll first summarize the substance briefly.
let's start with the serene admission of what are some of the character defects of the reigning Pontiff:
1. he is not a polyglot like his predecessor Saint John Paul II, he does not have the precise theological language of his predecessor Benedict XVI, but above all he does not have a perfect command of the Italian language; and that's a fact, useless that some interested extollers they deny it. To this we add that:
2. he persists in launching off-the-cuff speeches without being supported and above all protected by the security of a written and duly prepared speech ;
3. tends to have an ambiguity in language, deriving not so much from him, as much as from a socio-cultural discourse, indeed, certain Latin American populations, in a particular way, for example Mexicans and Argentines, they tend to express themselves by innuendo and double-meaning expressions, almost always avoiding clear and direct forms.
A couple of years ago, speaking with a famous vaticanist, who told me that he was struck by the fact that I addressed certain criticisms of the Holy Father, answered: if I don't highlight, with all due respect, those that are its objective defects and not subject to easy denial, then I cannot be credible when instead I defend his high apostolic office before the People of God, his magisterium and his sacred person as the legitimate Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter.
Indeed, every time I have called the faithful to the devotion and obedience due to the Roman Pontiff, they always listened to me, or better understood … “if he says so that he is so impartial and that if necessary he highlights his defects, it means it is true”.
The sentence in question which she recalled was unfortunate because it was not expressed properly and with linguistic mastery. The Holy Father tried to say something completely obvious from a doctrinal point of view, or: “… who am I to judge a man's deep conscience that only God can read, then judge?” In short: a real doctrinal obviousness, because none of us can know and least of all judge the conscience of others; this is what the Church has always taught, for centuries and centuries.
A completely obvious concept, however, poorly expressed by the Supreme Pontiff, which thus gave rise to interpretations of various kinds, with the results that we then saw and read in the newspapers, without any source of information from the Holy See clarifying what I have just clarified.
Sodomy still remains counted among the most shameful sins today “they shout” – to use the biblical expression – “vengeance before God”.
The situation is different if we speak instead of individual sinners who linger in this single sin, some of which, like the tax collectors and prostitutes of the Holy Gospel, they may precede us into the kingdom of heaven [cf. Mt 21, 28-32]. If it goes to the page 19 of my latest writing
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you will find a very clear example of this, through the image of a homosexual sufferer who in my opinion as a confessor and spiritual director was an authentic Angel of God.
On the other hand, those with a sometimes truly satanic hatred towards the harmony of the created universe are not Angels of God, they claim as good and as absolute rights of authentic aberrations: from marriage between same-sex couples, from the adoption of children to these same couples, to arrive at the gender enforced in schools by the powerful and Luciferian LGBT lobby. I doubt those, after having in fact hated God and his creation with an evil and destructive spirit, may they be united with the prostitutes and tax collectors who will precede us into the kingdom of heaven, I'm afraid it's much easier for them to finish – if they do not repent in an authentic and sincere way – in the fire of Gehenna.
Dear Father,
Thank you very much for giving me such a comprehensive and interesting answer. Indeed, our Pontiff had one “unfortunate exit”. True,only God can judge a man, because only He knows the human soul and therefore :” who am I to judge a gay” . It was enough for the Pope to add that sodomy is always condemned by the Church. I won't add anything else because you have perfectly expressed what I wanted to highlight
God is Mercy, i.e. eternal and unconditional fidelity to “Covenant” even if man betrays it by breaking it.
At the norm, when a covenant is unilaterally broken, the other party is no longer obligated to do so;
But God does not behave like this with man: every time the man, even if only with a sincere heart, the return to respect for the Pact is proposed again, God forgets the betrayal and runs to embrace the never repudiated son who returns home.
… who returns home
E’ very true that “the most beautiful dress… the ring on the finger and the sandals on the feet” they were given to the son on his return to the house and after a probable and healthy bath,
but it is equally true that, analogously to the one who “look at a woman to lust after her, He has already committed adultery with her in his heart”,
like this’ also the son who “with a sincere heart, the return is repeated” to the Father's house “he came to himself and said: How many wage earners in my father's house have plenty of bread and here I am starving! I will get up and go to my father and tell him: Dad, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your hired hands.”, has already begun his return home and indeed “He left and walked towards his father”.
However, that Father does not wait for his son to cross the threshold to embrace him, ma “When he was still far away, his father saw him and moved to meet him, she threw herself on his neck and kissed him.”
One of the clearest and most fluid articles I've read on the subject of mercy.
E’ a theme of fundamental interest for those who profess to be Christians today. Wanting to find a place to describe what she expressed, I think of Paris, the capital of France. When I lived in Paris I read the triad freedom, fraternity, equality on the ledge of each school, above every public monument and gave me chills when I passed by Place de la Concorde. More than smelling the scent of freedom, I felt the blood flowing on the floor (the chronicles speak of rivers…). Chilling that city that has destroyed a large part of our past after transforming churches into stables to impose modernity that still lasts. But the average French speaks of peace every day, of mercy, of forgiveness. They are all white as snow when they talk about euthanasia, of welcome and betrayed values. There I understood that before behaving like Catholics we must think like Catholics according to our mentality which everyone Browse of the last few centuries have changed.
We have to become Catholic in the head to understand true mercy especially when it becomes self-absolutive.
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Dear don Ariel
I would like to ask you why the church since the Vatican Council 2 he has given up on condemning the error? Thank you
dear fabio,
it does not appear to me that after the last council the Church gave up condemning error, to the limit, if anything, he began to condemn it in another way. Indeed, from after the Second Vatican Council to follow, they are not missing at all:
1. condemnations of theologians for heterodox tendencies;
2. condemnations of books by theologians and clergymen containing doctrinal errors or blatant heresies;
3. convictions of members of the secular and regular clergy for the reasons expressed above and revocation of their license to teach philosophical subjects, historical and theological studies at ecclesiastical universities;
4. excommunications imposed on bishops and priests;
5. dismissal from the clerical state of bishops and priests;
6. resignation – done this recently – from the clerical status of even a member of the College of Cardinals;
7. endless warnings from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
etc …
But who told him that the Church of the Second Vatican Council – which is always the same, same and identical Catholic Church as always – he ceased to condemn errors?
I offer you a pure, simple and verifiable historical fact: since after the close of the last council which took place on 8 December 1965 to date, in the fifty-four years that followed the Church excommunicated more bishops and priests than it has ever excommunicated since 20 September 1870, that is, after the unification of Italy, until 11 October 1962, date of the first opening session of the council.
Just so: in just fifty-four years more excommunications and resignations from the clerical state have been imposed than were instead imposed in the ninety-two years that preceded the opening of the council after the unification of Italy.
Try asking yourself this question, proceeding then if anything with the historical verification: the Supreme Pontiffs Leo XIII, San Pio X, Benedict XV, Pius XI and Pius XII, how many bishops do you know who have ever excommunicated or resigned from the clerical state??
Well, keep in mind that only the Holy Pontiff John Paul II and his successor Benedict XVI have excommunicated them, and some dismissed from the clerical state, more than those who have ever been excommunicated and dismissed from the clerical state starting with Leo XIII and following, even because, for all the popes who preceded the Second Vatican Council, the excommunication of a bishop, or worse, his dismissal from the clerical state, that was in itself possible, but still difficult even and only to think.
Listen, don't listen to bloggers makeshift historians of the Church on the computer network, because they talk so much nonsense, such as for example that since after the Second Vatican Council the Church no longer condemns.
In my opinion the “do not judge” also it has a different shade. In biblical / evangelical language “judgement” It is often synonymous with “final sentence”: judge a person (more than an act) tantamount to condemning a person permanently, exercise that is ultimately to God. A right understanding of the Word that you would be quick to condemn the evil and the evil deed, but not the person in the aforementioned way: here is the exercise of justice and with mercy. The hypocrites are quick in making the opposite. On the other hand we often see as “friends of humanity”, Antichrist's incarnation of the merciful, They stand out in the sectarian demonization, perhaps through soft words, addressed to themselves (“we're the good and intelligent”), before moving to the mass liquidation of “others”, So much for the Other with rhetoric with “a” capital.