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One of my Catholic friends expressed the following sentiment this evening, reacting to the above story:
"This is exactly why Rome is so toxic. The Gospel is good news. God came to free us from sin... He didn’t come to suffocate us with details."
"This is exactly why Rome is so toxic. The Gospel is good news. God came to free us from sin... He didn’t come to suffocate us with details."
I want to share and expand on my response to this, because I actually do think it's important.
As a canon lawyer who genuinely does “believe in this level of ritual requirement”, I think her basic instinct to identify an attitude of fear in this matter as "toxicity" is correct.
As a canon lawyer who genuinely does “believe in this level of ritual requirement”, I think her basic instinct to identify an attitude of fear in this matter as "toxicity" is correct.
