I am immediately reminded of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Pro Eligendo homily at the pre-conclave mass.
How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
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Marechal is right .. we must be strong in our faith and be ready to defend it at all costs. There was another thread posted yesterday that corroborates this pattern.
Christians are becoming social pariahs in Britain
Tomorrow there will be a shift in power in our country. Now is the time for prayer for the new president and our nation. May God help us!
That quote by the pope pretty much sums up one of the main reasons I am so glad I came back to the Catholic Church.