"It is not a question of lowering the church's moral requirements. When Jesus said that the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of us, he was not advocating prostitution. There are things that offend us, that shock us, that hurt us because they are ambiguous and wrong, but before judging and condemning, we must remember the "synthesis" offered by Thérèse."
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