A new (to me,)
blog by a Father Bede Rowe, (who has a charming Father Brownish avi,) highlights this bit of commonsense from the Pope Emeritus, spoken back when he was plain ol' Joe Ratz.
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to
force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the
ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to
live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract negative
religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must
follow...
The danger is that reason - so-called Western reason - claims that it
has now really recognized what is right and thus makes a claim to
totality that is inimical to freedom...
No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live
according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and
obligatory for all mankind.
Common sense... what a lovely concept.
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