Two problems have cropped up in the past few days which reveal to me some bad, non-Catholic thinking among Catholics. I have written on this theme before, but it needs repeating.
The first is the denial of free will. People chose to make bad choices daily. There is a growing number of Catholics on twitter, in blogs and in daily speech who reveal that they do not understand two things about free will. One is that we do make choices, even though these may be knee-jerk reactions which are bad habits. Bad habits grow out of bad choices.
Two, under this misunderstanding of free will, is that too many Catholics think that one cannot stand up to satan. If one is in sanctifying grace, one can and should do so.
The second problem is the faulty idea that some people do not have grace. No, God gives grace to all, but with this parenthesis-not all people are given the same graces and not all people choose to follow grace.
But, God does call us again and again to follow Him, and unless we persist, by choice, in serious sin, in which case He may leave us to our own devices, God will not leave us.
We walk away from God on purpose, not by accident, or chance.
Too many Catholic adults make excuses for their sins and the evil in the world.
Just say "NO".