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To: Mrs. Don-o

It seems pretty clear that he wants the church to shy away from condemning sinful behavior. Unless the media is giving him the lost in translation treatment.


22 posted on 09/21/2013 5:02:17 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Viennacon
I think this article, posted elsewhere on FR, (and the commentary after it) pretty much summarizes the media's consternation:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3069378/posts

What Pope Francis is saying here, is that it's not enough to just repeat law, and more law, and yet again law; the Church must first, and always, evangelize, which means to draw people into the love of Christ our God.

The moral law doesn't mean much to people who see it as just an irrelevant restriction on their freedom, imposed on them by busybodies who are interlopers in their lives; but once the are attracted to Christ and begin to acquire the mind of Christ, gradually it makes sense to them: they grasp the horror of what they're doing, AND they have the grace which strengthens them to do good and avoid evil.

What the Pope said to the gynecologists is beautiful: that the unborn child has the face of Jesus Christ, the face of the Lord! That is not "shying away from condemning sinful behavior"; it is, rather, showing exactly why these things are to be condemned.

24 posted on 09/21/2013 6:32:15 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." Matthew 19:17)
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