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| Archbishop Sheen Responds to Pope Francis |
"America is not suffering so much from intolerance as it is suffering from a false kind of tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong; truth and error; virtue and vice; Christ and chaos...this false broad-mindedness or tolerance of truth and error has carried many minds so far that they say one religion is just as good as another.
Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's.
Christ was tolerant about where He slept and what He ate; He was tolerant about shortcomings of His fish-smelling apostles; He was tolerant of those who nailed Him to the Cross, but He was absolutely intolerant about His claim to be Divine...Tolerance to His Mind was not always good, nor was intolerance always evil."
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