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New Cardinal Sarah Interview: "Being Good" Is Not Enough
Rorate Caeli ^ | 4/5/16

Posted on 04/05/2016 5:46:07 PM PDT by marshmallow

The following interview, which first appeared today in PCh24.pl, was conducted by the great Izabella Parowicz, Phd. Miss Parowicz asked us to share this interview with our readers, and we are very pleased to do so.

Q: It is a great honour for me to be allowed to carry out this interview with Your Eminence, especially in view of the recent release of the Polish edition of His beautiful interview book entitled "God or Nothing. A Conversation on Faith". While expressing my great joy about the fact that this book has been made available to Polish readers, I would like to start from asking about its above, very captivating title. Is it to be understood merely as a summarizing of Your Eminence’s own life and service to the Church or rather as a reminder and a message to all people of good will?

A: It’s mainly a summary of my own life because my book begins from my experience. I try to explain it in the first pages: I wanted a life dedicated to the contemplation of the Mystery and the following of Christ. I only wanted to pray. But the Lord had other plans for me and He wanted all this. We are useless servants; we are the brushes in the hands of a great Artist: for this reason, it was easy for me to say “yes” to God’s many calls. They are so many calls, which are all privileges that were granted to me: I became a priest, I was able to continue to study and deepen the Bible, I was chosen to become bishop and successor of the Apostles, and finally St. John Paul II asked me to go to Rome to serve His Holiness, who is the Successor of St. Peter. However, life without God is a......

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1 posted on 04/05/2016 5:46:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Actually enough is belief that Jesus is the Son of God. John 3:16. That’s it or Christ died for nothing.


2 posted on 04/05/2016 5:49:29 PM PDT by WENDLE (I guess)
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To: marshmallow

How I hope this man will be Pope someday! (Soon...)


3 posted on 04/05/2016 6:42:03 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Me too. No Tagles


4 posted on 04/05/2016 7:07:29 PM PDT by STJPII
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To: WENDLE

On the contrary, Christ carried His Cross and expects you to carry your own cross.


5 posted on 04/05/2016 7:11:06 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Absolutely not the message of Christ. He died for our sins by atonement. Look it up.


6 posted on 04/05/2016 7:33:00 PM PDT by WENDLE (I guess)
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To: WENDLE; ealgeone

John 2:05
His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.

Acts Of Apostles 1:14
All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

John 5:19
Then Jesus answered, and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.


7 posted on 04/05/2016 8:13:24 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

And this proves what regarding the catholic claim of the Queen of heaven and the other false titles attributed to Mary?


8 posted on 04/05/2016 8:24:51 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: WENDLE

He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
John 14:24


9 posted on 04/05/2016 8:50:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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To: WENDLE

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Luke 22:19


10 posted on 04/05/2016 8:52:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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To: WENDLE

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).


11 posted on 04/05/2016 8:53:57 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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To: WENDLE

“. . . When thou doest thine alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. . . . When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. . . . When thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly” (Matthew 6:1–18).


12 posted on 04/05/2016 8:55:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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To: WENDLE

“For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death” (Matthew 15:4).


13 posted on 04/05/2016 8:56:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Democrats are going into full Alinsky mode against Trump.)
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To: ealgeone

Revelation 12

And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: [2] And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered.

Why do you protestants hate the Blessed Mother so much?


14 posted on 04/05/2016 9:12:59 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow
"Being Good" is not possible.

There is none good but God.

As we are not God then we can not be good.

Although there are some people who are confused on the "we are not God" point.

15 posted on 04/05/2016 9:16:04 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: WENDLE

AMEN.


16 posted on 04/06/2016 5:09:01 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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