[MurphsLaw]

yes Thanks.... a "duh" moment on my part... remember the Reagan/ Dem party line well... on second thought now.... the analogy is even more clumsy than at first glance...

For it is exactly what The Church does as the Body of Christ - and what it has always been tasked to do - Gather into its world those who seek Truth - and is much more the than the occasional Priest/Bishop gone bad gotcha headline(s) of the day. In fact one of the main purposes of the Church is to fight the heresies of the day against the Church - which it has constantly done over the centuries...
And without that authority to suppress the radical notions against Church teaching or Doctrine- the Church would have ceased to exist long ago.
Its in the DNA of the Church to engage the untruthful. Those who seek out the devil will be very surprised when they actually do get to meet him....

[ebb tide]

In fact one of the main purposes of the Church is to fight the heresies of the day against the Church - which it has constantly done over the centuries...until the Second Vatican Council in which the Church promoted and approved heresies.

[ebb tide]

Its in the DNA of the Church to engage the untruthful.

It's certainly not in the DNA of Jorge Bergoglio. He warmly embraces, with open arms: abortionists, homosexuals and and the murderous muslims because "proselytism is a sin".