Received this from Vindictive Vince (hell of a guy). I thought I'd post it since Vince doesn't yet have the keys to the city that is catholicguyshow.com

After Lino issued his forgiveness to A Rod and his going on about all the hate mail he would receive I wanted to post something on the blog site but since I am not a contributor it does not allow an original post only comments. So I thought I would write to you and suggest that you address the subject on the blog.

I read in Galatians 2: in this mornings office about how Paul got on Cephas for trying to hide what he was doing when the Jews came around. Paul writes:

“We are Jews by birth, not sinners of Gentile origin. Nevertheless, knowing that a man is not justified by legal observance but by faith in Jesus Christ, not by observance of the law; for by works of the law no one is justified. But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we are shown to be sinners, does that mean Jesus is encouraging sin? Unthinkable!”

Well in this same light by acting in a Christian manner and offering forgiveness for a fellow sinner does not mean we are encouraging the sin just that we are all weak and need the strength of Christ to live and to be justified. Our offer of forgiveness is only to encourage our moving forward.