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To: Dutchboy88
No. With all due respect, when evidence is lacking, it is more just and charitable to assume the better, than to assume the worst. The latter is called "rash judgment" (making a negative judgment without evidence, with insufficient evidence, or against the evidence) or detraction/defamation (damaging somebody's reputation without just cause.)

I found this interesting item in a different article:

"Later, addressing mafia members and other criminals during his homily at Mass, the pope said: "Humbly, as a brother, I repeat: Convert to love and justice. Let yourself be found by God's mercy."

Sounds like a call to repentance, to me (LINK)

34 posted on 03/25/2015 12:40:25 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Let us commend ourselves and each other, and all our life unto Christ our God." Liturgy of St.John)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
"Sounds like a call to repentance, to me"

Sorry, "Converting to love and justice" may sound like good Catholicism, but it is not the Gospel of Grace. As I mentioned, the Gospel (in contradistinction and as clearly described by Paul) is, "You are dead in your trespasses and sin and (if you are among the elect, chosen before the foundation of the world) God will by grace make you alive together with Christ...you are saved by grace, through faith, and none of that from yourself, it is a gift of God, lest any of you boast...by saying I belong to the Catholic Church and performed the seven sacraments" (ooops, did he say this last part?)

41 posted on 03/25/2015 1:27:13 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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