St. Raymond of Penafort's grave warning to Prelates

Can anyone identify a recent Pope, Prelate, or Cardinal of the decadent West who does not live a life of luxury *, free from opposition or persecution, because he does not condemn the wicked sins and errors of modernity inside and outside of the One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church?


Saint Raymond of Penafort has this warning for those Popes, Prelates, and Priests who live comfortable and quiet lives because they refuse to preach the Gospel.


If the preacher of truth is really not deceiving us when he says that all who want to live godly lives in Christ will suffer persecution, then no one, I think, is exempted from this general rule. If he is, it is because he neglects or does not know how to live a sober, upright and religious life in this present age. I should hope that you would not be counted among their number. Their homes are peaceful and complacent. They live in security and never feel the touch of the Lord's rod. They pass their days in plenty and in the end go straight to hell...


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