“If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God. Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‘security,’ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists—they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
Excerpted from Pope Francis' America Magazine interview, September, 2013
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/pope-francis-12000-word-interview-with.html
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Girolamo Savonarola O.P.
Absolutely committed to the restoration of purity
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