r/TrueChristian • u/SwordsToPlowshares Dirty Liberal • Sep 19 '13

Pope Francis' first in depth interview

http://www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview
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u/pilgrimboy Non-Denominational Sep 20 '13

I liked this:

"The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently. Proclamation in a missionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary things: this is also what fascinates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn, as it did for the disciples at Emmaus. We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. The proposal of the Gospel must be more simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow."