{"id":26553,"date":"2011-07-30T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/breivik-may-help-christians-cl\/"},"modified":"2011-07-30T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T14:30:19","slug":"breivik-may-help-christians-cl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/breivik-may-help-christians-cl\/","title":{"rendered":"Breivik may help Christians clarify identity and belonging to the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nArchbishop Rino Fisichella spoke of Christianity this
\nweek in an interview regarding the Norway tragedy brought about by Mr. Breivik. In part he said, the gospel
\nand the culture that has developed from belief and life in Christ is is not a cultural weapon, it is not a fiction, and it is not something arbitrary, as Breivik is said to think, but “a
\nreligion of love, of rejoicing, and of respect.” Fisichella also said a few
\nother things that are worth noting because I need to make sense of one man’s
\nexpressive pathology. By the way, I don’t believe this Mr Breivik is a Christian
\nin any sense: neither practicing nor cultural. But what Breivik may have done is to force orthodox Christians to clarify what they believe and how they live. Sinful and criminal actions have a way of helping us to take stock in questions of identity and belonging. Fisichella’s points:<\/span><\/p>\n

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