Around the world, from the local parish to the highest levels of the Vatican, the papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia (AL) has been interpreted by some to justify, even to elevate the level of virtue, actions of some of the faithful previously taught to be sinful. Examples include ongoing public adultery and public homosexual relationships....
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Joyful, Fruitful Racism - Catholic Stand
Well, if open racists were welcomed into the church, then they might be converted, and changed and saved.
A more important thought -- it's not anything but solely Christ that saves us. Only He saves us.
Not any other stuff. We aren't saved by preaching. Not by a church. Not by being excluded out from some individual church's communion. None of those other things save sinners.
What saves sinners is getting to hear the words of Christ and being converted.
In order to do that, it's helpful, just as Christ showed us, that we be welcoming them.
We know for sure the Church has lots and lots of sinners in it, and most of them taking communion. Are we going to make our selves the judge of people that sinned
differently than you or me?
Like my sins before I finally repented were not that bad, so the church is for me, but their sins I judge, so no church for them?
Or this morning, when I got angry at someone and was unkind, or when I failed to love a neighbor well enough -- that's fine, church is for me, but it's not for those people over there that did another sin different from my own?
That's the danger we should continue to work to remove, that self-righteous putting ourselves in the place of judge and jury.
