"But seriously — we’re supposed to be a sign and a contradiction; if
the culture was not telling us we were doing it wrong? We might well be
doing it wrong! It’s okay. We’re Catholic. We can take it. And we’ll still be here, imperfect, and faulty, talking deeply about things others jeer at or want to skim over and settle
in the easiest and “feelingliest” ways possible (and with as much
name-calling as they can manage) long after the “tolerant” folks have
passed. We’ve survived skinning and beheading and being crucified upside
down; we’ve been thrown into death pits and survived decades-long imprisonment and isolation and exile and firing squads. Because
the church survives by the grace of the Holy Spirit we know we will
survive this, but we are in a long season of penance for sins of
commission and omission. This stuff is going to keep coming. As John
Paul II once said to his seminarians, “do not forget who you are.” And
as he said to the rest of us, often, “do not be afraid.”
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