Novus Ordo: Belgium bishop co-authors book in support of pre-marital sex, same-sex relations
Please pray for these heretics to leave behind Vatican II.
Christ is the Light of the world
The opening sentences of Vatican II’s Lumen gentium state that
Christ is the light of all nations, not the Church, but that this light
shines on the Church’s face, especially in its proclamation of the
Gospel. The human reception of that light—and hence of the Gospel—is,
however, open to resistance and hence to distortion, misinterpretation,
and rejection (see John Paul II, Dominum et Vivificantum, §§55-56, 47). Thus, the offer of salvation, or being called
to salvation by God’s grace, is one thing, and the actuality of
reception is another. Consider John 1: 5, 10. “And the light shines in
the darkness and the darkness has not understood it.” “He was in the
world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know
Him.” Both of these verses speak of the negative reaction of the world
to the coming of the light. As Karol Wojtyla, the future John Paul II
rightly said, “Jesus is both the light that shines for mankind and at
the same time a sign of contradiction . . . , that sign which, more than
ever, men are resolved to oppose” (Sign of Contradiction, 198).
