Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) If you want to serve the common good and build a better future, you’ll never do it by hiding your faith in the closet.   You’ll never do it by being Catholic in private and something else in public.   History is made by people with convictions, and the courage and passion to live those convictions.   Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

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.  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) 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.

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) People who take the question of human truth, freedom and meaning seriously will never remain silent about it. They can’t.  They’ll always act on what they believe, even at the cost of their reputations and lives. That’s the way it should be. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.