Pope Benedict: Church of Love Addresses Heretics with "Drastic Severity"
By John-Henry Westen
VATICAN CITY, April 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "The Church of love is also the Church of truth," said Pope Benedict XVI today, in an address to some 30,000 people gathered to hear his Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter's Square. The bishops, the successors of the Apostles, he said, carry out "above all a service of love; and the charity they live and promote is inseparable from the truth they defend and transmit." The Pope added, "Truth and love are two faces of the same gift that comes from God."
In his teaching, the Pope spoke of "the contrasts concerning the truth of faith and the subsequent lacerations of communion."
"That the early Church was also aware of these potential tensions within the experience of communion is clear from the First Letter of John," said the Pope. "No voice in the New Testament rises with greater force to highlight the reality and the duty of fraternal love between Christians; yet the same voice addresses itself with drastic severity to the adversaries who were members of the community but are so no longer."
The pro-life movement in Canada sees those "adversaries who were members of the community but are so no longer" very clearly in the many Catholic politicians who support abortion and homosexual 'marriage'. Both former Prime Ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin repeatedly pronounced themselves as Catholics but pushed abortion and homosexual 'marriage' legislation with vigour. (see coverage http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05062107.html)
In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, Rev. Thomas A. Lynch the Dean of Studies at Toronto's prestigious St. Augustine's Seminary explained, "anyone can claim a depth of faith all you want, but faith has to be known in actions, as James said, faith without good works is dead."
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06040511.html
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