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Christians find fulfillment not by using power or force to realize their own wishes, but by being submissive to God’s will and serving others, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Many in the world today are surrounded by people or things that threaten to become the guiding force in their lives, therefore, “it’s necessary to have a hierarchy of values in which the top priority is God,” the pope said during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall June 27.
It was his last general audience before the pope was to leave July 3 for vacation at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome. The weekly general audience was scheduled to resume Aug. 1.
In his catechesis, the pope continued his series of talks on prayer in the letters of St. Paul, looking this time at the Letter to the Philippians.
People often look for “self-actualization in power, domination and in powerful means,” creating a tower of Babel in a quest to be god-like, said the pope. Such pursuits reflect the sin of Adam, who sought to put himself ahead of God.
Jesus, instead, showed that true exaltation and victory come with absolute abasement and humility — being a servant to others and obeying God’s will, even to the point of being killed on the cross, the pope said.
By becoming fully human and obeying God, he said, Jesus gave humanity back the dignity it had lost with Adam’s disobedience. [More]
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Bill Donohue comments on an incident that was reported over the weekend:
Actor Alec Baldwin got into a spat that almost turned violent when he reacted with a vengeance against a photographer on a New York City street. Out of nowhere, Baldwin blurted, “I know you got raped by a priest or something.”
There was absolutely no context in which it would make any sense for Baldwin to react this way. What it suggests is that we are dealing with a man whose animus against Catholicism is so deep that virtually anything can set him off. That he got married in a Catholic church the day after his blow up makes this story even more bizarre.
This is obviously not the first time Baldwin has gone off the rails. But it is the first time we know of where he libeled priests. This guy’s resume just gets sicker and sicker.
Sorry, I posted the above in the wrong thread.
HE crawled to the peak of “power!”
Right. . . and he’s the one who interprets God’s will.
So, Ann, hard to know for sure what you mean by your post, but I’m taking it to mean you are unwilling to submit to the Vatican. If that’s true, that would make you holier than St. Faustina. Could that be?