[NYer]

Ping!

[Salvation]

*8Referring to the line in Psalm 22 (”Your rod and your staff - they comfort me”), Benedict became explicit about the need for the “rod” of discipline to correct errors in the Church. **

Wow! Loving Pope Benedict XVI for saying this!

[SaraJohnson]

Better late than never...

[narses]

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[kitkat]

BUMP

[Highway55]

Read this on the blogs a couple of months ago.

“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious.” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, before the Knights of Columbus, June of 1972.

[Salvation]

**The priesthood, Pope Benedict said, is not “pleasing to the ‘enemy,’” (the devil). **

God bless our priests now and always.

[SuziQ]

"The Church too must use the shepherd's rod," he said, "the rod with which he protects the faith against those who falsify it, against currents which lead the flock astray."

A Bishop carries that crozier for a reason! He is supposed to be like a father, applying discipline, when needed. Too bad most of them went too much toward the 'pastoral', and not the 'fatherly' with those abusive priests.