The greatest persecution of the church doesn’t come from enemies on the outside, but is born in sin within the church. The church thus has a deep need to re-learn penance, to accept purification, to learn on one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice. Forgiveness does not exclude justice. We have to re-learn the essentials: conversion, prayer, penance, and the theological virtues. That’s how we respond, and we can be realistic in expecting that evil will always launch attacks from within and from outside, but the forces of good are also always present, and finally the Lord is stronger than evil. (Benedict XVI)
(Find HERE the context and the whole statement of the Pope.)
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and of ours of course.
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Usually, clerics are those who ‘benedict’ simple people, like us. Yet, I am sure Benedict has a sense of hunour and does not mind to be ‘benedicted’ by a Baptist. He could do with any of these coming his way these days. May God have mercy on the Catholic Church!
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may the force be with you benedict!
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