Spiritual Warfare, Arm yourselves!

"I will not delude you with prospects of peace and consolations; on the contrary prepare for great battles. Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching you. Fight like a knight, so that I can reward you. Do not be unduly fearful, because you are not alone." Our Lord to Saint Faustina Kowalska

More Words Of Wisdom from Archbishop Chaput

"...My point is this: Evil talks about tolerance only when it’s weak. When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good and innocent lives is an ongoing witness against it. So it always has been. So it always will be. And America has no special immunity to becoming an enemy of its own founding beliefs about human freedom, human dignity, the limited power of the state, and the sovereignty of God."~ ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT

What does the Church say?

Lately I'm hearing an awful lot about tolerance, well, it got me to thinking.. what does the Catholic church say about tolerance??



Toleration always implies an evil. We do not tolerate presents on our birthday or a party held in our honor. What we do tolerate are friends not bringing presents and not being invited to the party all together. The Catholic Church tolerates homosexual behavior as much as it tolerates other evil acts. It puts up with them out of respect for the person all the while proclaiming the moral evil involved.

Pro-gay advocates are not at arms with the Church because it will not tolerate, but because it will not celebrate. They want the Church to march in their gay parades, to witness their gay marriages, and put a large red O.K. on their gay lifestyles. All of this is done to naturalize the unnatural. 

Take a look at nature, do we ever hear of a lioness mating with a lioness or a mother bear seeking out another mother. Two male dogs living in the same dog house will never share a moment of intimacy. Sure there have been cases of animals mating with the same sex or even a frog that changes its gender, but we call these “cases” because they are “exceptions”. The same ends of a magnet will never come together; just as the same ends of a battery are never made to touch. Nature decreed that it takes a male and female of any species to reproduce. Even the American Psychological Association (APA) dropped their claim to a hypothetical “gay gene” when scientists found out there was nothing scientific about it. 

 But there are those “cases” of people who feel inclined to their own sex. The Church has always made a distinction between someone with homosexual inclinations (itself not a sin) and homosexual lifestyles where promiscuous sex is implied. The person is always respected and in many cases the Church has gone out of its way to help someone with an unnatural attraction to the same sex. Be they homosexual or heterosexual, the Church teaches that everyone should live abstinence according to their vocation in life. Married men and women are called to abstain from sex with other people. Single men and women are called to abstain from sex all together. Now, why shouldn’t the Church ask the same from homosexuals? Many homosexuals do in fact live abstinence and are an example for many. 

 Any talk of err in homosexuality is destined to ruffle a few feathers. Many people ask the question “why can’t they be happy like everyone else?” Of course they can be happy and to my knowledge the Church has never denied this fact. It only points out that to be happy is not equivalent to following your passions wherever they lead you. Nearly every child enjoys chocolate, but what mother allows her little pumpkin to eat as much as he wants and to his heart’s content? There are limits to such pleasures and the difference is as contrasting as fit and fat.

Tolerate we must, but the Church will not celebrate.

The Church must say no to gay “marriage” which manipulates the very meaning of marriage and opens the door to the legalization of polygamy and any other sexual combinations; it must abstain from gay couples adopting children so that they are not reduced to mere toys in a social experiment; it must speak out against homosexual intercourse as a sacrilege of pro-creation; it must uphold the moral truths that sustain the dignity of every man and form the mold of a just society.

Love is not tolerance

BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN

Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it.

Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it.

It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin.

The cry for tolerance never induces it to quench its hatred of the evil philosophies that have entered into contest with the Truth.

It forgives the sinner, and it hates the sin; it is unmerciful to the error in his mind.

The sinner it will always take back into the bosom of the Mystical Body;
but his lie will never be taken into the treasury of His Wisdom.

Real love involves real hatred:
whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the buyers and sellers from the temples
has also lost a living, fervent love of Truth.

Charity, then, is not a mild philosophy of "live and let live";
it is not a species of sloppy sentiment.

Charity is the infusion of the Spirit of God,
which makes us love the beautiful and hate the morally ugly.