Posted on 03/29/2023 6:13:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
On March 23, Pope Francis received participants in a conference organized by the Alphonsian Academy (Alphonsianum), two months after he raised the institute of moral theology to the dignity of a pontifical institute.
Delivering his address in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace (photographs), the Pope thanked the Alphonsianum—named after St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist order and doctor of the Church—for the “formative service that you offer to the Church in the field of moral theology” as its 75th anniversary approaches.
“The Second Vatican Council affirms that moral theology, nourished by Sacred Scripture, must help the faithful to understand the greatness of their vocation to bring Christ’s charity to the world,” the Pope began. “Every theological-moral proposal ultimately has this foundation: it is the love of God that is our guide, the guide of our personal choices and our existential journey. Consequently, moral theologians, missionaries and confessors are called to enter into a living relationship with the People of God, taking on especially the cry of the least, to understand their real difficulties, to look at existence from their point of view and to offer them answers that reflect the light of the Father’s eternal love.”
The Pope continued with a personal anecdote:
Faithful to the Alphonsian tradition, you seek to offer a proposal of Christian life which, while respecting the demands of theological reflection, is not, however, a cold morality, a desk morality, I would say a “casuistry” morality. I say this from experience, because unfortunately I studied a “casuistry” morality at that time. Just think that we were forbidden to read Häring’s first book, "The Law of Christ": “He is a heretic, he cannot be read!”. And I studied with that morality: “Mortal sin if two candles are missing on........
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ANTI-pope. Not the Pope. Evil cannot be the Pope. This evil is a squatter.
Good luck with that dipshit fake pope.
Man’s chosen one.
I think I see the problem.
Me too!
Exactly!
I read today the pope has been hospitalized with respiratory problems.
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