[ebb tide]

Among these more progressive voices, Cardinal Cottier himself has been earlier in the news, in 2009, when he argued that Obama in his Notre Dame address had not defended abortion as an absolute right and that the president recognizes the “tragic gravity” of the problem. Cottier also then said that Obama does not defend “relativism,” and that “his words move in the direction of reducing the evil” in trying to make “the number of abortions as small as possible.”

[Petrosius]

Mercy yes! But mercy comes after sorrow and a firm purpose of amendment.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is the Pope Catholic?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Whatever happens, surely they shouldn’t do anything redemptive.

[BlatherNaut]

He also says: “In rigorism there is an innate brutality that goes against the gentle way God has of guiding each person.”

Oh really?

"And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic." John 2: 15-16

"Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him." Psalms 2: 12-13

[sitetest]

Hireling.

[Jeff Chandler]

For those yearning for the Church to accept divorce/remarriage I ask: Does this “mercy” apply only to second marriages? What about third marriages, fourth marriages, and so forth?

[PeterPrinciple]

“Mercy is doctrine, It is the crux of Christian doctrine,”

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But Justice is a doctrine also.

God MUST be just, he does not have to be merciful.

Reading Jeremiah, our continued response to all “prophets” is to say:

Jer 23:37 “This is what you should say to the prophets: ‘What is the LORD’s answer?’ or ‘What is the LORD saying?’