Was John the Baptist “Welcoming”? by John M. Grondelski

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By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 29, 2023

John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. All views expressed herein are his own.

Since “welcoming” is a contemporary obsession of some ecclesiastics, and Vatican II instructed us to better ground our theology in Sacred Scripture, we can profit from examining John the Baptist’s approach to “welcoming.”

Today we celebrate the memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. The Church recognizes him as a martyr, killed because he stood up for the sanctity of marriage against divorce.

Jesus honored his prophetic cousin by stating that “among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist” (Matthew 11:11). When Jesus asked His Apostles “who do people say that I am”—a question posed ahead of the critically important Petrine confession at Caesarea Philippi (Mark 8:27-30), among their answers was “some say John the Baptist.” …

Was John the Baptist “Welcoming”? by John M. Grondelski

Archbishop Viganò: Globalism is ‘Satanic’ Preparation for the ‘Rise of the Antichrist’, by Michael Haynes

An Enemy Has Done This: Globalism, the Conciliar Church, and Crippled Consciences, by Robert Morrison

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 29, 2023

Since “welcoming” is a contemporary obsession of some ecclesiastics, and Vatican II instructed us to better ground our theology in Sacred Scripture, we can profit from examining John the Baptist’s approach to “welcoming.”

Today we celebrate the memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. The Church recognizes him as a martyr, killed because he stood up for the sanctity of marriage against divorce.

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