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***Okay, a question to the Catholics out there...***

In Full Context:

Lorenzo Albacete
http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=albacete&topic=complete
Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, formerly a physicist, a professor of theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, and president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, is now national director of the lay movement Communion and Liberation. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine.

The name of the actual interview was titled “Lorenzo Albacete” and it’s two hours long. It’s a fascinating interview and well worth a listen. One gets to see where the priest in coming from - a reasoning scientist - reasoning philospher - a reasoning man of God on a journey. He’s self-deprecating in his honesty and in full context one can understand more fully his point(s).

I ffollowed your link and find it disingenuous that the web-master of this Martin Luther blog reduced the tape to a less than a minute sound bite and retitled it as “A Roman Catholic View of Salvation”. It’s obviously an effort to slander this priest and carrying this slanderous seed over the net isn’t exactly something Jesus would like. I ask that you view the full interview and if you continue to view him as “a heretic” then so be it but at least give him the benefit of the doubt before attempting to carry the video to any other site.

The interviewer looked like he was sucking lemons. The priest follows the doctrine of the Church - for example - he told the interviewer in no uncertain terms that Contraceptives were wrong...he also told him to stick Darwinism up his rear end albeit in that absent-minded and intellectual way he employs...someone has to talk to them - rather him than me. :) You appear to be a theologian and I'm anything but...so I'll defer to: Chapter 13 of this book touches on something maybe close to what the Msr. was musing...here's a paragraph: [..]Here is another remarkable thing. We know that God is identified with each of His attributes, so He does not love, but love. Similarly He is justice, and He is mercy. How is this possible? We can begin to understand as we are now explaining. The man who goes out on the bad spiral is getting more and more blind. This is justice, he has earned the blinding. But it is also mercy, for the more one knows about religion , the greater the responsibility. So his responsibility is mercifully being reduced. And in one and the same action, we find both mercy and justice exercised.[..] http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/NWAPOLRV.htm ...and this: St. Augustine: "we should clearly understand that the fulfillment and the end of the Law, and of all Holy Scripture, is love...Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought"