For all those who say the Catholic Church isn't "friendly" enough, or, worse, for those who say She "persecutes" those whose alternative lifestyles does not match Her faith and morality, I say this. I want a Church that tells me, as per G. K. Chesterton, where I am wrong; not one that tells me in an expedient, oily, and "friendly" way where I am right.The Catholic Church does not "persecute" me in telling me where I am wrong in my disordered passions, in my choosing my will over that of God; She is doing me a favor. A huge one at that. And Our Lord in His divine mercy goes even further. He grants us a swift and healing sacrament of Reconciliation.
The Prodigal Son did not wait for his father to come and dredge him up and out of the pig stall. His disordered passions and willfulness took him into that "far country." He picked himself up and started trudging back to his father's homestead.
Once there, what happened? Read it - Luke 15:11-32.
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