Bishop Barron in the Catholicism series talks about this issue. He gives the example of Mother Teresa asking a baker for some food for a child only for him to be spit in her face. Mother Teresa responded, “Thank you for the gift, but do you have food for the child.” The baker started to cry from this response. Mother Teresa disarmed the baker by not responding in kind, but she was not a spiritual doormat.
Furthermore, I asking addressed this issue as a question to my own Bishop Paprocki. I even used the doormat language with him. He responded by pointing me toward the Cristeros and St. Jose Sanchez Del Rio. A small boy who chose martyrdom over rejecting the Christian faith. We have a right to defend human life and dignity, but the we must do so by the model of the humility exemplified by Jesus Christ. “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.”
A person who lives by the sword uses it as his or her first action.
Bishop Barron in the Catholicism series talks about this issue. He gives the example of Mother Teresa asking a baker for some food for a child only for him to be spit in her face. Mother Teresa responded, “Thank you for the gift, but do you have food for the child.” The baker started to cry from this response. Mother Teresa disarmed the baker by not responding in kind, but she was not a spiritual doormat.
Furthermore, I asking addressed this issue as a question to my own Bishop Paprocki. I even used the doormat language with him. He responded by pointing me toward the Cristeros and St. Jose Sanchez Del Rio. A small boy who chose martyrdom over rejecting the Christian faith. We have a right to defend human life and dignity, but the we must do so by the model of the humility exemplified by Jesus Christ. “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.”
A person who lives by the sword uses it as his or her first action.