“let’s lower the bar to exclude the virtues of faith, hope, charity, temperance, prudence, justice, and fortitude and wow look at that we have the same morality”
even if you whittle down the natural law to the reddit maxim of “don’t be an asshole” atheists are probably its most obnoxious and notorious offenders
they can’t exercise faith hope or charity because their primary object is God Himself; they can’t exercise the fullness of justice because they’re incapable of rendering to others due spiritual goods; the overwhelming vast majority proudly engage intemperate sexual acts;
and they only participate in fortitude and prudence insofar as they pertain largely to vain earthly concerns, the only exceptions to any of this would be done entirely in spite of their atheism anyway
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Not saying Francis has necessarily supported any of the following, but if you’re worried about the future of the Church in general as far as liberalism is concerned, take solace in the fact that the gravest evils of liberalism are already condemned infallibly by Magisterium:
So even if the Pope were to call for a different approach to, say, the sin against nature, know it is already solemnly condemned as abominable by the Third and Fourth Lateran Councils (as well as by the unbroken and constant apostolic/patristic tradition)
If a Pope were to criticize Humanae vitae on contraception, know that its teaching is already safeguarded by the universal/ordinary magisterium as well as the solemn, infallible condemnation of Pius XI in Casti connubii (as well as by the unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition)