I’m thinking, that Jesus knew that the woman
a) worked only to survive,
b) would flee Sodom and Gomorrah at the first opportunity,
c) was seeking salvation, and
d) did not desire to return to the line of work.
I’m thinking that the Pope can spend personal time with each family who makes the effort to present themselves well in church -— not to impress anybody, but as a method of conveying to God their love -— yet upon the Pope’s invitation, the church is occupied by a hellish recidivist display of barely clad (if at all) people who
a) do not seek salvation from their repeated acts,
b) do not seek salvation from their *desires* such as to plant themselves immediately next to *your* children in the church,
c) do not seek salvation from their urges to relentlesslya and dogmatically enforcement function as a Nationalizing Thought Police Force WHO ARE IN JUDGMENT OF YOU AND YOURS,
d) do not seek salvation from anything except from the loneliness they feel as they ostracize themselves from ... God’s love.
Yet His love prevails, though they would not sense it *because of their continued resistance to their own salvation.*
Should the church still be open to the recidivist?
Yes.
Though we are asked, and we are taught, to share what we have on earth *but not* to tear away our souls and hand such to those who would devour us.
The recidivist is not coming to the church for what you possess ... The recidivist is coming for *you.*
The people seeking salvation, are coming for *salvation,* not you.
The Pope did not think thru *the consequences* of his statements, which effectively are invites to bring Bourbon Street into the sanctuary.
SHEESH ...
“c) do not seek salvation from their urges to relentlesslya and dogmatically enforcement function as a Nationalizing Thought Police Force WHO ARE IN JUDGMENT OF YOU AND YOURS,”
SHOULD HAVE BEEN:
c) do not seek salvation from their urges to relentlessly and dogmatically function as a Nationalizing Thought Police Force WHO ARE IN JUDGMENT OF YOU AND YOURS,