The Works of Christ Progress: Archbishop Nienstedt Calls Faithful to be 100% Catholic

Catholic Online ^ | 10/22/10 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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On March 10, 2010, in a General Audience where he was instructing the faithful on the contributions of St. Bonaventure, Pope Benedict spoke of Church history and authentic progress, "Today there are views according to which the whole history of the Church in the second millennium is a permanent decline; some see the decline already immediately after the New Testament. In reality, "opera Christi non deficiunt, sed proficiunt," the works of Christ do not go backward, but progress."

Well, if you were to believe some of the articles passing themselves off for reporting in the secular press these days concerning the Catholic Church, the Church impedes progress...

The current re-emergence of paganism is not the path to authentic human freedom and flourishing but to misery. The Christian understanding of marriage and family is not some outdated notion of a past era but the framework for a future of true freedom. It is courageous Bishops like Archbishop John Nienstedt who are paving the path to authentic progress. After all, "opera Christi non deficiunt, sed proficiunt, the works of Christ do not go backward, but progress..."

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There is a concerted effort to paint those who adhere to faithful, classical, orthodox Christianity and, most particularly, faithful Catholic Christianity, as "backward." The Christian understanding of marriage and family is not some outdated notion of a past era but the framework for a future of true freedom. It is courageous Bishops like Archbishop John Nienstedt who are paving the path to authentic progress.

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... well said.

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Re-reading your succinct post. Impressive and exactly correct.

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“I believe that it’s important that if you’re going to be Catholic, that you have to be 100% Catholic,” Nienstedt said. “That you stand by the church, you believe what the church believes and you pass that on to your sons and daughters and your grandsons and granddaughters.”

Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/deaconsbench/2010/10/archbishop-nienstedt-you-have-to-be-100-catholic.html#ixzz136J1lNT9

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Archbishop John Nienstedt

 

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This message is particularly important in a time when every schism and non-Catholic denomination is in effect underbidding each other to make their brand easier to follow, less restrictive, and more hip than the other.