tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post7996526463574860758..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: THE MISSING LINK IN POPE BENEDICT'S INTERVIEW RECOVERED, LIKE THE THIRD SECRETFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82004404209264212912016-03-22T06:57:51.434-04:002016-03-22T06:57:51.434-04:00I love that Benedict is clearer than most theologi...I love that Benedict is clearer than most theologians, but wouldn't it have been far easier to just point out that Christ called us to be salt, light, and leaven?Salt and Leaven are fractions of the ingredients that make up a loaf of bread....and yet they make all the difference to the taste and texture of the finished loaf.<br /><br />Light is a simple thing and yet essential for all life on earth. <br /><br />But while Christians are to be leaven in society, we are called to make disciples of these societies. The society is kept alive because of the Christian spirit living within it, but people are still called to fellowship. The pagan American not in the Church enjoys a hundred benefits from society retaining Christian foundations....but he is still not saved if he does not discover Christ through the benefit of a Christian culture.<br /><br />The underlying, unspoken "problem" with ALL of these theological speculations about who is saved and how, is that our FEELINGS would be hurt if we conclude that people are damned who live their whole lives and die outside of the Church. Our FEELINGS would be hurt and we might just have some personal guilt for our lack of zeal....and we can't have that! much better to come up with truly convoluted theories that make the Lord's words in the Gospel even more opaque than trouble hearts and make people FEEL BAD about their pagan uncle or apostate aunt.<br /><br />It's the modern turn to subjectivity in morals (and tyranny in politics) that leads these theologians to search for a subjective solution to an objective issue. That a "good Muslim" might go to hell despite being a "nice guy" is appalling why? Because suddenly we have a responsibility to be salt, light, and leaven TO HIM rather than to toss up our hands and say "the Holy Spirit will do it".<br /><br />Maybe. Maybe the Spirit will do "it" (reveal the truth of God and God's will for mankind) to this random non-believer. Maybe the poor man who otherwise could have met a Christian but didn't because Christians all kept the Good News to themselves, won't listen to the inner promptings of the Spirit and will go to his death in his sins....<br /><br />We won't know until it's too late for any of us. <br /><br />So why take the risk when Our Lord's words clearly call for us to work our best to let the light shine? Why do we put on bushel baskets and then think the lost and orphans of the world will find the light by some other way? <br /><br />Jusadbellumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42110730403867527952016-03-21T20:50:08.631-04:002016-03-21T20:50:08.631-04:00Benedict is favoring de Lubac.
Wise Benedict...Benedict is favoring de Lubac. <br /><br />Wise Benedict...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com