"It might seem to follow that love must accept everyone, even enemies,
just as they are, and to affirm them even in the error or sin which is
present in them. But the law of love does not require indiscriminate
affirmation of everything about other persons (cf St. Thomas Aquinas,
S.t., 2-2, q.34, a.3).
One's love must be like Jesus's. He
loves sinners and brings them into communion with Himself in order to
overcome their error and sin. When the scribes and pharisees bring a
woman caught in adultery to Jesus, He not only saves her from being
stoned to death but warns her not to sin again (see John 8:3-11).
In a true sense, Jesus is not judgmental, He sets aside the legalistic
mentality, readily forgives sinners, does not condemn the world, and
points out that those who refuse to acknowledge their sinfulness are
self-condemned by the truth they violate (see John 3:16-21). But He
realistically recognizes sinners as sinners and never accepts error as
truth...
“And no small tempest lay on us …” – The Story of a Storm That St. Paul
Endured and What It Has to Teach Us About Sin
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With yesterday’s feast of Pentecost, our reading of Acts suddenly ends and
hence we miss some important stories of Paul’s journey to Rome. This is
perhap...
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