Post-Obergefell, the Church is presented with an opportunity
for homilists to recount Church history to see how to tell the truth in the
face of sin and persecution—for example: St. Irenaeus’ battle against the Gnostics, St.Athanasius’ denunciation of Arianism, St. Augustine’s unravelling of the
half-truths of the Manicheans, and St. Cyril of Alexandria’s struggle with
Nestorianism. As in the time of the early Church, today Christians may come to
realize that perhaps God is once again permitting our enemy to prowl about,
seeking the ruin of souls. Why? To draw us together to contemplate the things
that are from above. Much of Christian history has been martyrdom, a remedy for
division in the Body of Christ. Martyrdom, St. Thomas More teaches, is to be avoided
it if at all possible. But we should emulate the Church fathers and hold to the
Faith as one. Heresies come and go—and the gender heresy is much less formidable than Arianism, Pelagianism, or
Gnosticism were, but Jesus remains with His Church forever.
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