Below are two tweets. The first is from US Dominican priest Pius Pietrzyk. The second is a tweet retweeted by US Jesuit priest James Martin.
Wouldn't you much prefer to be a Jesuit, at least on this account.
While I think refraining from attacking the faith of another is just simple courtesy, there's a problem with the view below. It reflects the modernist tendency to make faith completely subjective. We don't believe that as Catholics. Faith's object isn't my opinion, it's Truth
John Gehring: "Questioning an individual’s deepest commitments to his faith is religious slander. The fact that pastors are engaged in such behavior makes it all the more disturbing."
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The argument presented by Pius Pietrzyk shows the deep incompatibility of the position of many right-wing Catholics with the basic values of modern societies, including democracy. The end-point of his logic is a Catholic version of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
His argument is no more than a modern iteration of the concept that "error has no rights", a phrase which can be traced back to one of the most inconsidered documents ever issued by a pope; Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors (1864).
Thank you for your wisdom. And common sense too.
I have form here so I'll confine myself to saying I agree with Francis Hunt.
But Póló, I fully agree with you.
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