“Call me paranoid, but I sometimes feel like it is not only Protestants who are in protest against Catholicism, but the whole world.
“When I stop to analyze this feeling I realize that there is an argument to be made. If Catholicism embraces the whole truth wherever it appears, then it is going to offend everybody who can’t stand that particular truth. Consequently, if Catholicism embraces the whole truth everywhere, then it is bound to offend almost everybody everywhere who only hold to part of the truth or to a distorted part of the truth. (People who do this are called ‘heretics’)”
In a recent commentary, Father Dwight Longenecker (parish priest at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Greenville, SC) reflected on persecution of the Church and its people because of its stand for truth, the whole truth.
To access Fr. Longenecker’s complete post, please visit:
Standing on My Head: Protest and Persecution (9 AUG 12)
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