"Man's Need Is to Return
to God!
There is a plausible heresy that conceives religion
as service to one's fellow man. But teachers and prophets of this doctrine forget that there is also the First Commandment as well as the Second one; and indeed that validity of merit in obedience to the Second Commandment must be motivated on reality of the First Commandment. One's neighbors are to be loved and served but the primary and fundamental basis of this
charity must be the love of God.
I serve man poorly if I substitute his service for worship of a living God. I serve man best and most effectively when I conceive of him not in the jargon of selfblinded atheists but in the warm, human, and divine relationship of a child of God, a brother of Christ and
K my own brother.
There must be a rightabout turn to God, a return to
faith, in penance and in prayer."
from A Statement by Francis Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York and (Catholic} Vicar of the Armed Forces.
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