Cardinal Sarah: We Need Silence, to Hold to Doctrine and to Pray

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What is your view on the current crisis in the Church at the moment — the current confusion, loss of direction and so forth? How do you seeing it being resolved?
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Well I say we must pray, [uphold the] family and doctrine, to be faithful to the doctrine, and to pray. God will give us the right way to walk, you know: [that] confusion is not a good way to live. If we see clearly the way, then we can walk with security. So I think we must hold firmly to the doctrine, and pray.
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Great read! Sometimes, when one of my students say something inappropriate, I just stare at them in silence, and shake my head no as if to say, I can’t believe you just said that. Works like a charm, most of the time.

There is little you can say to a gang of secularists that is going to shame or make them think about what it is they are doing. They talk and think non-stop and are ready with a rebuttal on a moments notice, never stopping for a moment to consider anything you might say. Silence forces them to think, almost against their will. We could use more leaders like Cardinal Sarah. :knight1:
 
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If he used the word ‘Dogmas’, as we ought always to hold fast to divinely revealed doctrines, then I’d be excited.
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Help me understand it. Cardinal Sarah used the term “doctrines”. But you would only be excited had he used the term “dogmas”. Why would the distinction between these two terms make a difference? Do doctrines hold or carry less value in faith than dogmas?
 
One thing that struck me about this interview is how much the interview interjected, and how the Cardinal deviated from that question to teach. The Cardinal did not even address the liturgy or acknowledge the idea of crisis. He spoke instead of the need of silence and contemplation in our lives. I think this “answer” is an answer as he seems to see this busy non-stop lifestyle as an underlying cause of other ills, at least that was what I took from the article. I think I may get this book. It resonates.
 
pnewton said:
One thing that struck me about this interview is how much the interview interjected, and how the Cardinal deviated from that question to teach. The Cardinal did not even address the liturgy or acknowledge the idea of crisis. He spoke instead of the need of silence and contemplation in our lives. I think this “answer” is an answer as he seems to see this busy non-stop lifestyle as an underlying cause of other ills, at least that was what I took from the article. I think I may get this book. It resonates.
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I completely agree with you. Silence and prayers are very beneficial to us.
 
Randolph said:
Help me understand it. Cardinal Sarah used the term “doctrines”. But you would only be excited had he used the term “dogmas”. Why would the distinction between these two terms make a difference? Do doctrines hold or carry less value in faith than dogmas?
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Dogmas are divinely revealed doctrines. All other doctrines stem from the Dogmas.

A static Church is one that relies too heavily on the ‘other’ doctrines to a point of holding us down. We have been taught that we are to reach the “height, breadth, length and depth” of our belief, so this means that these other doctrines have to be able to breathe, not be constricted; doctrines have to be given room to develop, so that the rest of humanity can follow suit, and grow.

Dogmas, however, are the doctrines which seem to get challenged from all sides surrounding the narrow way to Heaven, by evil, that seeks to mask out the light. And whenever Dogmas are challenged, then an era of chaos is always the ensuing threat.

So, as said, if the Cardinal had mentioned Dogmas, then I would be excited.
 
friardchips said:
Dogmas are divinely revealed doctrines. All other doctrines stem from the Dogmas.

A static Church is one that relies too heavily on the ‘other’ doctrines to a point of holding us down. We have been taught that we are to reach the “height, breadth, length and depth” of our belief, so this means that these other doctrines have to be able to breathe, not be constricted; doctrines have to be given room to develop, so that the rest of humanity can follow suit, and grow.

Dogmas, however, are the doctrines which seem to get challenged from all sides surrounding the narrow way to Heaven, by evil, that seeks to mask out the light. And whenever Dogmas are challenged, then an era of chaos is always the ensuing threat.

So, as said, if the Cardinal had mentioned Dogmas, then I would be excited.
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Thank you for your explanation. I am excited with either doctrines or dogmas.
 
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