Jared Staudt on Our Role in Our Fallen World

"Once, an editor of The Times newspaper asked G.K. Chesterton, 'What is wrong with the world?' Chesterton, the great master of common sense and wit that he was, responded: 'Dear Sir: I am. Yours, G.K. Chesterton.'

"'I am.' There is starting honesty and humility in recognizing that the world's problems rest in the heart, and not ultimately in any of the great social, political, or economic forces on the outside. It is the problem within the heart that causes those exterior troubles, of course. There are certainly sinful structures in the world, which are structures that arise from and encourage sin, such as Communism, although they only have power because they tap into the darkness within us. The world is broken because we are broken."

In a recent commentary, R. Jared Staudt, Ph.D., Director of Formation for the Archdiocese of Denver, reflected on Lent, our sinfulness, and our call to becoming part of the solution to our fallen world.

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Denver Catholic: Jared Staudt: We live in a fallen world. Now what? (18 FEB 21)