"Imagine a priest of God telling someone who has sinned gravely or who is on the edge of doing so, that God doesn't really care about the sin. 'He is a God of love,' says the priest. 'He knows you mean well. And besides,' he says,'“the Church has changed her mind about many things,' a statement that happens not to be true, 'and she will probably change her mind about this also. Why, what you are doing might even be considered a good and holy thing, because it goes beyond the law, as Christ commands us to do.'
"'You shall not die,' says the serpent to Eve, 'for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.'
"We could spend our lives meditating upon that verse, and not come to an end of how it reveals to us the reasons we invent for ourselves to go and do what we wish, and not what we should.”
In a recent commentary, Anthony Esolen (professor and writer in residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, Warner, NH) reflected on how men in priestly robes are to be watchmen, not turnstiles, and, since we are all priests of God, ordained or otherwise, we bear a like responsibility.
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