Salvation of all is God’s business, not ours…to believers, it may appear that the secular world does not care, but our role, as commissioned disciples of Christ is to open doors, build bridges, and not through up our hands and build road blocks!
It was part of a movement that culminated in the Latin American bishops endorsing a “preferential option for the poor” a few years later. Absent Paul VI’s endorsement, that affirmation of the Gospel may not have overcome some of the traditionalist distortions of Church teaching.
Oh, well, I thought out attitude is supposed to be that God doesn’t have hands on Earth, we have to be His hands. etc. Not sure why you think that the papal tiara is building a road block.Loud-living-dogma:
Salvation of all is God’s business, not ours…to believers, it may appear that the secular world does not care, but our role, as commissioned disciples of Christ is to open doors, build bridges, and not through up our hands and build road blocks!
Yeah, Jesus wore an elaborate crown and was big on making sure people saw and acknowledged his fancy crown… pretty sure he ostracized those who went to lengths ti be sure people saw their royalty in their apparel…
No… given up to be like Christ and follow his example…
And I am not sure why you see it as building a bridge…but, to each his own.
Tongue in cheek, I am guessing…but if not, Well, there ya go…by the way, did you read today’s Gospel reading?
I suppose. If you see the perfect justice of God as vengeance…Christ will come to judge, certainly, but judgement and condemnation are two different things. He told us in scripture that the condemned have condemned themselves.