Worth remembering. . .

“We need to remember that tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty – these are Christian virtues. And obviously, in a diverse community, tolerance is an important working principle. But it’s never an end itself. In fact, tolerating grave evil within a society is itself a form of serious evil. Likewise, democratic pluralism does not mean that Catholics should be quiet in public about serious moral issues because of some misguided sense of good manners. A healthy democracy requires vigorous moral debate to survive. Real pluralism demands that people of strong beliefs will advance their convictions in the public square — peacefully, legally and respectfully, but energetically and without embarrassment. Anything less is bad citizenship and a form of theft from the public conversation.”   -Archbishop Charles Chaput

Tolerance is no virtue if we sit idly by as death is reigned down upon those unborn or the aged or those whose lives are judged unworthy of the cost of sustaining them. . .

Tolerance is no virtue if we sit idly by as injustice claims its victims when we know better and can speak. . .

Tolerance is no virtue if we sit idly by as error masquerades as truth and truth is no longer claimed possible or preferential. . .

Tolerance is no virtue if every religion is claimed as basically the same and Christ is buried under a sea of sentiment, good works, and sincerity. . .

Tolerance is no virtue if we sacrifice our identity to be successful or betray that identity to find an easier path of existence. . .

Tolerance is no virtue if the tolerant do so out of fear and accept the silence of that which is right for the domination of the wrong. . .

We should not be rude, we need not be arrogant, but we ought not be indifferent to the plight of the Word that endures forever in the face of a world which has lost its taste for right, for truth, and for life. . .