"Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven.
But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments
will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.
I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:18, 19,20
There has been a lot of speculation about "What kind of pope will Pope Leo be?"
One vocal faction wants him to accelerate the drift toward secular values. They want a pope who supports relative standards and blesses go-with-the-flow morality.
Another faction contends that religion has no purpose if it mindlessly rubber-stamps every base, human desire. They want a pope who advocates for absolute standards.
A recent video posted by Pope Leo suggests that he is an absolute standards kind of guy.
It is instructive that he chose the word "murder" for #7 rather than the more common word "kill" |
It is a long video (47 minutes). While I doubt that even many Catholics will watch it, you can get a sense of the content by scanning the Table of Contents.
We are all sinners. We are all fallen-people. A preacher or priest telling people that something is not a sin doesn't make it so. It makes the preacher a craven coward.
The physician comes for the sick people. Religion* is to lift-up and support us sinners and to help cure what is broken within us.
*I expect some comments that will say "You don't need no stinking religion. All you need is Jesus".
You are entitled to that viewpoint. My viewpoint is that Jesus is the Living Water and religion is the plumbing.
I also believe that "Woke religion" is when the potable water and waste-water pipes are cross-plumbed because "it don't matter" and "it is all the same".