The majority of these heterodox Cardinals may openly profess certain truths of the Faith, but they routinely deny the logical consequences of those truths. So we have Cardinals such as “Tucho” Fernández, Cupich, McElroy, Tagle, Koch, Zuppi, Grech, and Hollerich (among many others) tell us that there is no need for non-Catholics to convert, and even less need for Catholics to follow Our Lord’s commandments.
During Holy Week and Eastertide the Church offers us countless reminders of God’s desire that all souls should believe and practice the Catholic Faith. From the establishment of the priesthood on Holy Thursday to Jesus’s promise to the Good Thief on Good Friday, the Church gives us so many lessons about Jesus’s hatred of sin and His mercy towards repentant sinners. Then, among so many other splendors of the Easter Vigil, the Church has us renew our Baptismal promises:
“Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, the Lenten observance now completed, let us renew the promises of baptism by which formerly we renounced Satan and his works, and the world likewise, the enemy of God; and by which we promised to serve God faithfully in the holy Catholic Church . . .”
On Easter Monday, we hear the voice of St. Peter, our first pope, proclaiming why all souls should follow Our Lord through His Church:
“In those days, Peter, standing in the midst of the people, said: Men brethren, you know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached, Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost, and with power, Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. And we are witnesses of all things that He did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, Whom they killed, hanging Him upon a tree. Him God raised up the third day, and gave Him to be made manifest; Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with Him after He arose again from the dead; And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was appointed by God, to be judge of the living and of the dead. To Him all the prophets give testimony, that by His name all receive remission of sins, who believe in Him.” (Acts 10:37-43)
For those who believe these things, it is obvious that we must cooperate with God’s grace to faithfully follow what Jesus taught — in practice, this means we must be good Catholics.
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