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Are increasingly one and the same. \u00a0True, unlike our Protestant brethren who simply throw the Gospel and the Faith out the window to embrace the hedonism and paganism of the non-Christian world, the Church will never throw certain things out the window. \u00a0Christ will have to really live. \u00a0Christ has to rise from the dead. \u00a0After all, where would the Real Presence be without that? \u00a0Likewise, the Church will never allow gay marriage. \u00a0 It might end up supporting gay civil relationships, or just wash its hands of it, but it won\u2019t be able to just say \u2018I now pronounce you Man and Sam.\u2019 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the Church has the Sacraments, and as a result can\u2019t so easily just throw the Faith out the window. \u00a0 It must compromise, slice, dice, shave and twist. \u00a0But there are some things it just can\u2019t accept. <\/p>\n

Still, what will happen, and what one sees increasingly in Pope Francis and his priorities and passions, suggests it will accommodate all it can, and increasingly agree to disagree over where it cannot change. \u00a0So at the zealously liberal Catholic website Catholic and Enjoying It<\/a>, Conservative Catholic Mark Shea gushes over his love and admiration for Stephen Colbert. \u00a0What happens next is a sad display of liberal Catholics embracing varying levels of calumny, denial and flat out lunacy in order to suggest that Colbert is a faithful son of the Church in every way. \u00a0If he isn\u2019t it doesn\u2019t matter. \u00a0And even if he supports abortion and the sex culture, so what? \u00a0He trashes conservatives, and that\u2019s enough. <\/p>\n

If it weren\u2019t for Pope Francis, I\u2019d be more shocked. \u00a0But if you want to be an obedient Catholic, and you see liberalism and want to embrace it, you could do worse than living now. \u00a0Since it appears embracing liberalism and hating conservatism, as one of the commenters notes, covers a multitude of sins. <\/p>\n

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Are increasingly one and the same. \u00a0True, unlike our Protestant brethren who simply throw the Gospel and the Faith out the window to embrace the hedonism and paganism of the non-Christian world, the Church will never throw certain things out the window. \u00a0Christ will have to really live. \u00a0Christ has to rise from the dead. 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