The INCLUSION delusion
Tolerance versus Intolerance
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NOTE:
Archbishop Fulton Sheen is scheduled to be
beatified on September 24, 2026.
Given the current climate
both inside and outside the Church,
I thought it would be
appropriate to reflect on his prophetic statement on
Tolerance versus Intolerance.
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“There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of Tolerance and Intolerance.
Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness.
This is NOT true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two different things.
Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles.
Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine.
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.
And hence the Church in her history, due reparation made, has always welcomed the heretic back into the treasury of her souls, but never his heresy into the treasury of her wisdom.”
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“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not.
It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos.
Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.”
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
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