Posted on 10/02/2015 6:27:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
Talking about mercy, sin, participation in the Church, and the urgent need to respect the Holy Eucharist
ROME — The prodigal son left home in order to say, “I’m independent, I’m autonomous from my father,” and his father wants to forgive him. But if he doesn’t return home, he can’t be forgiven. And returning home means leaving sin behind.
This was just one thought shared by Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, who spoke exclusively to Aleteia at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia last week.
Appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 2014, he was one of the first priests to be ordained in the West African nation of Guinea, and attributes his own faith to the generosity of the Spiritan missionaries, who came to his village in 1912.
Cardinal Sarah was one of the keynote speakers at last week’s World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. He delivered a well received address entitled: The Light of the Family in a Dark World.
n this interview, he discusses his new book God or Nothing, the scope of papal authority, and why authentic mercy depends on a “break” from evil, and repentance of sin.
Your Eminence, your new book is entitled ‘God or Nothing’. Why did you choose this title, and what is the heart of the message of your book?
As you know, from the time just before the Second Vatican Council until now, God has been disappearing more and more; [for many] he no longer exists. No one is interested in Him, especially in the West. Already at the Council, they wanted to help the world to rediscover God.
The main idea of my book is how do we give God the first place in our thoughts, in our daily actions, and in our.....
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This is a wonderful book! I’m reading it right now. I hope Cdl Sarah will be Pope someday, assuming the Church survives Francis...
This was the book that the nuncio, Archbishop Vigano, gave to all the seminarians and young religious who attended the Papal mass. Vigano is considered a “cultural conservative” and is thought to be the person who arranged for the Pope to visit the Little Sisters of the Poor and meet Kim Davis.
The book was also distributed to his seminarians by Archbshop Gomez of LA, who is very orthodox and thus is completely ignored by the Vatican and hasn’t been made a Cardinal despite the importance of his diocese.
Cardinal Sarah is greatly respected by the right people!
For later.
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