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Jim: News flash - one does not exclude the other. Your post is rather nonsensical, as if the Pope's encouragement to the Jesuits to continue meeting Christ in the poor somehow lessens the punch of his clear and constant challenge to the Jesuits to examine their fidelity to the totality of the teaching of the Church. For centuries, Catholics managed to serve the poor valiantly all the while affirming Jesus as Lord unambiguously and adhering to the teachings of the Church on life issues and sexuality - the areas in which the Jesuits seem to have so much trouble. The Pope's point is simply - if you're not going to affirm the centrality and truthfullness of the Church's teaching on soteriology, Christology and morality, your work is nothing more than social work. Which is good work, but not what the Gospel calls us to.
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