Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Wednesday, May 28, 2008

One quibble

Saint Father Pio – a sign and challenge

Most likely due to translation from the original language to English, a question comes out not only misleadingly, but heretically. In the first question the good Rev. Msgr. says "We all worship this Saint.". I'm assuming that that is a mistranslation of the word for 'revere' or 'venerate' as Catholic teaching states clearly that only God is worthy of worship. I'm sure a priest who has been given the honourific of 'Monseigneur' would not say that knowingly.

Catholics, despite their enthusiasm at times, do not worship Mary or the saints, but honour them for their holy virtues. That's Catholic teaching...

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