I’m not Catholic, so I can’t speak to the validity of his viewpoint. But he’s dead right about the importance of holding onto ALL of the message of the Gospel, not just the parts that make us feel good.

Give it a read and let me know what you think. (Link below the quote)

Flannery O’Connor, one of my Catholic heroes, famously said, “Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.” American Catholicism was not pushing back against the hostile age at all. Rather, it had become a pushover. God is love was not a proclamation that liberated us captives from our sin and despair but rather a bromide and a platitude that allowed us to believe that and to behave as if our lust, greed, malice and so forth — sins that I struggled with every day — weren’t to be despised and cast out but rather shellacked by a river of treacle.

via I’m Still Not Going Back to the Catholic Church | TIME.com.