Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Friendship is our topic again for today and today we are focusing solely on evil friendships. (Dracula laugh in the background.)
Why is so hard for us to give up a friendship or even a romantic relationship that is not good for us?
I think a big part of it is that we all think that we are a good judge of character and we just can’t imagine that we would pick a bad friend. So, that’s part of it.
Another part is that we all struggle with letting people go…because there is the “what if” in the back of our mind. What if they get better? What if they change? What if I’m overreacting?
One more reason to touch on is that in our day and age, the judging police have done a sufficient job in making people think that they can never judge another person’s character whatsoever. If you do, you are labeled a moral snob or some equivalent of that label. We think that maybe we are ungrateful for the friend and we are just judging them wrongly.
Nope! God gave us a moral compass for a reason and if we can’t use it to judge bad character and bad actions then what the heck is it for?
St. Francis wants you to drop bad friendships like a hot rock and we will hear about it as we turn to Chapter 21 of the Third Part.
