Friday, January 15, 2010

30 Giorni: If everything is grace there is no longer grace by Cardinal Georges Cottier, OP
The distinctions are essential especially in a time in which Gnosticism is the evident alternative to the reality of faith

Today, the absolute necessity of grace for every moment of the Christian experience, and the dynamics of its action, seem to have disappeared from theological debate and preaching. On this point, even in the ordinary pastoral, one notes confusions, ambiguities, misconstruction, misunderstandings, which are indications of a general obfuscation regarding the terms and basic criteria of Christian doctrine and the life of faith, and they risk misleading the people of God.


And Catholics have become Pelagians, or semi-Pelagians...