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| Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer |
"It is public
knowledge that some ecclesiastics today seem to want to create a new
Church. By doing so they betray Christ, for they change spiritual
aims—the salvation of souls, one by one—into temporal aims. If they do
not resist this temptation, they will leave their sacred ministry
unfulfilled, lose the confidence and respect of the people, and create
havoc in the Church. Moreover, by interfering intolerably with the
political freedom of Christians and other men, they will sow confusion
in civil society and make themselves dangerous. Holy Orders is the
sacrament of supernatural service of one’s brothers in the faith; some
seem to be trying to turn it into the earthly instrument of a new
despotism."
Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei, Christ is Passing By, no. 79.
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