"I've been thinking increasingly about the troubles our church is
facing, the division and strife in our country and world, the crisis in
the family and the crisis of faith, and it has been impressed on my
heart and mind that at the heart of the problems in the church is a lack
of the very heart of the faith - the real mission of Jesus Christ in the
world.
"On the one hand we have the modernist Christians who spend all their
time working at peace and justice issues, fighting for gender equality,
gay rights, environmental issues or whatever…
"On the other hand we have the conservative Christians who spend all
their time fighting the liberal Christians, trying to hold the fort and
hold the faith, trying to fight their own culture wars issues…defense of
marriage, abortion, immorality…
"Everybody running around fighting with one another and all of them trying to make the world a better place.
"In the meantime the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ stands neglected on a lonely hillside."
In a recent commentary, Father Dwight Longenecker (parish priest at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish,
Greenville, SC) reflected on the importance of our world receiving a "new proclamation of the cross of Jesus Christ and why his death and resurrection matter to ordinary men and women."
To access Fr. Longenecker's complete post, please visit:
Dwight Longenecker - Catholic priest and author: Jesus Christ - Victim and Victor (9 NOV 18)
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