“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil… a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons… never to truth.” – Fulton J. Sheen, “A Plea For Intolerance” (1931)and “Old Errors and New Labels” (1931)

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Such tolerance leads to a church divided and thus diminished. Truth from and about God is not to be diluted in any way. In Sheen’s view and mine, there is either good or evil and either Christ or chaos. False broadmindedness has confused the modern world into believing Satan’s biggest con – that there is no true good and evil, just perceptions that differ between reasonable persons. Truth and first principles demand an intolerance toward falsity. But we are all sinners. As such, while there cannot be tolerance for these first principles, we should show mercy and grace toward mankind. The love of Christ should be shown to all.