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By John Zmirak, The Stream - Breitbart reports: Pope Francis has publicly endorsed an essay that appeared in 2017 criticizing relations between Evangelicals and Catholics in the United States as an “ecumenism of hate.”… On Thursday, La Civiltà Cattolica journal released the transcript … in which the pope suggested that certain Evangelical Protestants in the United States “cannot really be defined as Christian. … [T]here are sects that cannot really be defined as Christian. They preach Christ, yes, but their message is not Christian,” the pope said. “It has nothing to do with the preaching of a Lutheran or any other serious evangelical Christianity.”

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, National Catholic Register - We also affirm that this is really what religion is all about… Religion is not primarily feeding the hungry, housing the poor, winning equal rights, saving the environment, having good manners, being good citizens, being respectable, obeying the rules and not dropping litter. Religion is not primarily about changing the world, but about preparing for the next world… Of course the corporal works of mercy are vital, but they’re not the first priority. Good works are necessary but we are not saved by good works…

By Msgr. Charles Pope - First the scandals, the decline and disorder happened on our watch and we, especially the clergy, have a lot of repenting to do over what we have done and what we have failed to do. Another reason is that the older among us remember a time when things seemed better; when the Church was strong and growing, more certain of herself, more dignified. It was not a sin-free time but things seemed more unified, more orderly.