As Catholics we have a duty to treat all people,
regardless of their beliefs, with justice, charity, mercy, prudence, patience
and understanding. We’re not asked to
“tolerate” them but to love them, which is a much more demanding task.
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Obviously, tolerance is an important
democratic working principle. Most of
the time, it’s a good and vital thing.
But tolerating lies about the nature of the human person is a sin. Tolerating grave evil in a society is an equally
grave evil. And using “tolerance” as an
excuse for not living and witnessing Jesus Christ in our private lives and in
our public actions is not an act of civility.
It’s a form of cowardice.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
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