“I have come home to a Church that is all about bright lines, honoring clearly defined rules and standards that leave little room for personal interpretation – not in all areas, by any means, but in the ones that count. I have come home to a Church that does not tolerate everything and does not apologize for that – but one that, get this, does not mistake tolerance for love and intolerance for hate. I have come home to a Church that is hierarchical in structure and teaching, one that privileges Scripture and Tradition over personal revelation, natural law over experiment, life in its messiness over temporal expediency, the common good over the individual entitlement, God’s will over what I want. In a world of Anything Goes, I have come home to a Church that says No, It Doesn’t.”
In a recent commentary, writer Joanne McPortland reflected on one aspect of the Church and its place in the world.
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