"Man can choose a convenient way and avoiding any hardships. He can also descend, into the vulgar. He can sink into the morass of lies and dishonesty. Jesus walks ahead of us, and leads us higher. He leads us towards what is great, pure, he leads us to the healthy air of the heights: towards life in truth, towards the courage not to be intimidated by the chatter of prevailing opinions; towards the patience that endures and supports others. He leads us towards openness to the suffering, the abandoned, towards the loyalty that is on the side of the other even when the situation becomes difficult. He leads us to a willingness to bring help, towards a goodness that can not be disarmed not even by ingratitude. He leads us to love – he leads us to God."The article also quotes Archbishop Dolan who eloquently articulates the perspective of Catholics who are observing the attempt to characterize the Pope as a pedophile protector.
The Washington Post actually published.... Sinead O'Connor?
I feel sorry for this troubled woman but she definitely does not have both oars in the water.
To Irish Catholics, Benedict's implication -- Irish sexual abuse is an Irish problem -- is both arrogant and blasphemous. The Vatican is acting as though it doesn't believe in a God who watches. The very people who say they are the keepers of the Holy Spirit are stamping all over everything the Holy Spirit truly is. Benedict criminally misrepresents the God we adore. We all know in our bones that the Holy Spirit is truth. That's how we can tell that Christ is not with these people who so frequently invoke Him
Irish Catholics are in a dysfunctional relationship with an abusive organization. The pope must take responsibility for the actions of his subordinates. If Catholic priests are abusing children, it is Rome, not Dublin, that must answer for it with a full confession and in a criminal investigation. Until it does, all good Catholics -- even little old ladies who go to church every Sunday, not just protest singers like me whom the Vatican can easily ignore -- should avoid Mass. In Ireland, it is time we separated our God from our religion, and our faith from its alleged leaders.
Or, there's another famous woman who once said: Be it done to me according to Your Word. Your choice.
She is locked up with her errors. What a tragedy.
"Je me attens a Dieu, mon createur, de tout; je layme (l'ayme) de tout mon cuer"
"I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart."
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There is no priest I love more than Archbishop Dolan, a REAL priest. He said it best--il papa need our love, support and prayers. I am reminded of the passage about where you build your house. For those who have built their house on solid ground, our house stands. For those who have built their house on sand, well, you get the picture.
St. Paul tells us: Be firm in your Faith. For any discouraged reader--
Romans 8:35-39
"Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? 36 (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) 37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord".
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