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To: SpirituTuo
However, I think the question that is being asked by the Pope is how to minister to people, as we find them.

Are you saying the previous 265 Pope were not correctly ministering to people as they found them? Is homosexual perversion and adultery some new problem that has suddenly cropped up out of nowhere? Have you read the Old Testament?

28 posted on 03/14/2014 8:15:27 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I am not saying the previous were incorrectly ministering.

Rather, what I am saying is the current Pope appears to be more focused on how to reach those who express feelings of rejection by the Church (regardless of how irrational those feelings are).

There is nothing new under the sun. However, to love our neighbor, we need to encourage them to first believe Jesus loves them, as does the Church.

Compared with God, we are like naughty children, who have to be “let back in,” so we will respond to correction and learn the lessons God is trying to teach us. Assurance of love is one of the most important aspects of developing a healthy conscience.


42 posted on 03/14/2014 3:51:35 PM PDT by SpirituTuo
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