A Counterfeit Church: When the Church Becomes a Compassionate NGO

[Michie]

During his first homily as Pope in 2013, Pope Francis gave the following warning:

…if we do not confess Jesus Christ, nothing will avail. We will become a compassionate NGO [non-government organization], but not the Church, the Bride of Christ.

When we walk without the Cross, when we build without the Cross, and when we profess Christ without the Cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly, we are bishops, priests, cardinals, Popes, but not disciples of the Lord.

Amen, Holy Father!

The temptation to remake the Church into a compassionate NGC (CNGO) manifest most when some within the Church seek to replace Christ’s call for personal holiness with a more humanist call for “social justice.” This humanistic call rejects Christ and turns the Church into a hospital devoid of proper medicine and the Good Doctor required to heal the sick within.

Therefore, we need to understand Christ’s call for holiness, identify the attempts of those within the Church to lead us away from this call (and thus create an CNGO), and how to understand true social justice in the light of Christ.

Christ’s Call to Holiness​

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A Counterfeit Church: When the Church Becomes a Compassionate NGO

During his first homily as Pope in 2013, Pope Francis gave the following warning: …if we do not confess Jesus Christ, nothing will avail. We will become a

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