It is never too late to acknowledge the truth

This is a very important story and is very well worth reading. It is pertinent to recent discussion about how important it is to correct errors while one is still alive, even if it is many years after they happened.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13425

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In this weekly email newsletter, President of Human Life International, Father Thomas J. Euteneuer, shared a letter he received that caused him “to shed tears of gratitude.” The author, a former priest who had protested Humanae Vitae in 1968, had written to tell Fr. Euteneuer about his conversion from dissident priest to his acceptance of the controversial and prophetic encyclical.

The writer of the letter had decided to sign HLI’s “Humanae Vitae Pledge,” promising loyalty to the teachings of the Catholic Church, obedience to the teachings of Humanae Vitae, and “to embrace God’s precious gift of life.”

“There is for me a special significance in signing this Pledge, and [it] will give me a peace of mind and heart that I have not experienced since 1968. In 1968 I was a young Franciscan priest studying in the Graduate School of Religious Education at Catholic University,” the man wrote.

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Do read this whole thing, it is very moving and also very typical of decisions that were made in the 1960's and 1970's that must be faced today. I commend the former priest for his continuing devotion and for this act of outstanding moral integrity in signing the pledge and allowing his story to be used to encourage others. THAT is how souls are saved, my friends, by leading others to the true light by example.