"John said to HIM, 'Master, we saw someone who drove out demons by calling upon YOUR name, and we tried to forbid him, because he does not belong to our group.' JESUS answered, 'Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in MY name can soon after speak evil of ME. For whoever is not against us is for us.'" - Mark 9:38-40
(While JESUS prepares HIS apostles, whom HE wants to leave in charge of HIS Church, others preach the Gospel and expel demons. In the same way nowadays, outside the Catholic Church, the Church of the apostles, others of diverse Christian denominations do apostolic work.
This evangelization outside the Church, at times against the Church, offers a challenge. If others evangelize, it is perhaps because the Church does not reach a great number of people: GOD wants others to do what we do not. The proliferation of separate churches is for the Catholic Church a call to reform.
For the Church finds itself paralyzed for want of a true spirit of poverty and because of its massive structures which no longer allow simple people to find there the fresh life-giving air of the Gospel.)
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