New Pope by Charley Reese. Charley Reese has some strong medicine for dissenters in the Church. I've often been confused by some people who think they should get to vote on what the Church stands for and how it should run. If that's what you want, go find it, it isn't here. Become a Protestant! You don't agree with the Church, the Pope or the Magesterium anyway. Why stay? Surely the Pontiff cannot be the divinely choosen successor to St. Peter if he is in error. Look, I'm the last guy who is going to tell people they need to "go forth and sin no more". Far from it. The difference is, I believe in what the Church stands for and how and why we do things the way we do. It is the difference between believing something is right and failing to do it vs. believing something else entirely. If you believe and are trying (but failing) to do right, it makes sense to stay. To believe otherwise and not do it because you don't agree with the Magesterium is another matter.
This is very strange...
I'm an average guy with an average life. I have a few more kids than most but for the most part I'm just an anonymous lumpenprole toiling away in obscurity both professionally and on this blog. To say my life follows a certain routine is like saying " The Hindenburg caught fire." That is to say, technically accurate but wildly understates the truth. In any event, I just received a call from The Wife. To wit: "Did you order something?" "No, why?" "There's something here for you." "Uh, box, bag, envelope, singing telegram?" "It's a box" "Who's is from?" "It's from [Name redacted pending confession or further investigation]" "Who?" "(repeats name)" "No idea. Never heard of him." A quick google search later I find that the sender's return address is in the wilds of northern Pennsylvania. A place I have never visited. "Open it." "W...
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