Jesus could have handed out copies of his encyclicals – the Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes, the Our Father. Rather, he gave us his preaching as guides to understand the next stage of the journey of the Body of Christ to discover the fulness of eternal life in God!
The “McCarrick Report” is gut-wrenching. How make sense of it? What can we learn?
Initial reporting on the “Abuse Synod’ featured all the things that did not happen at the Synod. Later, reflections look at what happened to the participants within the Synod and what impacted them.
Insights into what has not been highlighted in the media accounts of the Abuse Synod.
https://www.cmeast.org/2018/09/19/a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/
No other words are necessary!
https://www.cmeast.org/2018/09/15/what-the-pope-understands-about-the-abuse-crisis/
https://www.cmeast.org/2018/08/30/the-lincoln-option-as-a-response-to-the-abuse-crisis/
https://www.cmeast.org/2018/08/27/theres-an-elephant-in-church/
https://www.cmeast.org/2018/08/05/the-mccarrick-situation/
In Bishop Barron’s “cry from the heart” over the clerical sexual abuse and cover-up crisis he draws a lesson from Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address. He reminds us we are each called to prophets.