She does not hope to do so if it means watering down Christian obligations. Christ could have kept many of His Jewish followers by saying that He did not mean His words, “The bread which I shall give is My flesh.” The Jews said, “This is a hard saying. Who can accept it?” But Christ let them go rather than keep them by mitigating His doctrine. The Catholic Church does likewise. If men say, “This is a hard saying,” the Church will never mitigate Christian obligations in order to win them. She is here to accommodate men to Christian teaching, not to accommodate Christian ideals to the moods of men.
Radio Replies Volume 1 by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble MSC and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty
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