{"id":1134,"date":"2013-09-17T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/egregioustwaddle\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2016-05-02T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:57:28","slug":"the-church-and-the-costa-concordia-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/egregioustwaddle\/2013\/09\/the-church-and-the-costa-concordia-a-lesson.html","title":{"rendered":"The Church and the Costa Concordia: A Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Righting the ship. If you\u2019ve been following the efforts \u00a0to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia<\/em> cruise vessel, grounded for nearly two years on an Italian reef, you know it was no simple operation. It took vision, commitment, lots of money and equipment and time.<\/p>\n

Righting the Church (which is, even for those of us who share Pope Francis\u2019s graced optimism, always in need of righting) is the much the same.<\/p>\n

It only takes one person\u2014the Concordia<\/em>\u2018s captain, who swears he didn\u2019t know the reef was there and then had the arrogance to jump ship; the Catholic, stubbornly traditional or radically avant-garde<\/em>, who believes she or he must ignore the maps and push ahead (or astern) full speed\u2014to leave a trail of miserable wreckage.<\/p>\n

And it only takes one person\u2014Nick Sloane, the South African salvage expert who believed his crazy plan would work; the saint, which (as Fr Dwight Longenecker writes<\/strong><\/a> so beautifully today) means you and me!\u2014to make the course correction.<\/p>\n

Fr Dwight and Nick Sloane preach the same lesson: Don\u2019t sit around waiting for there to be a better time, and don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was heavier than I expected,\u201d Sloane told reporters after getting a few hours of sleep. \u201cBut you have to be patient. You can\u2019t do it with a stopwatch.\u201d Read more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, remember this, we are engaged in a spiritual battle. Why did you think that the church would be free from corruption, scandal, indifference and heresy? It has always been like this and it always will be. Read church history. The complainers and protesters never accomplished very much. The saints did. The saints confronted corruption with radiant lives of simplicity and power. They skewered scandal with radiant lives of purity and goodness. They overwhelmed indifference with radiant lives of zeal and joy. (Fr Dwight Longenecker)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, quitcher bitchin. Roll up your sleeves and heave ho, me hearties. In the long run, it\u2019s all<\/em> about salvage.<\/p>\n

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