https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sHihA1jfohE<\/a>\n<\/p>I refuse to link to them.<\/p>\n
The recent Synod-inspired\u00a0doctrinal (some would label them merely\u00a0pastoral<\/em>) controversies between certain self-proclaimed, super-credentialed, academic Catholic elites,\u00a0several\u00a0of whom have displayed an astonishingly high tolerance for censorship, and others, mostly in the blogosphere, who have both called them out and have returned rapid, if not always\u00a0accurate, fire.<\/p>\nClergy against clergy, blogger against blogger, columnist against everyone else, it has been both an instructive exercise as well as\u00a0a deeply disturbing one.<\/p>\n
Instructive because it has helped to define, clarify, and highlight the split \u2013 it would be hyperbolic to call it a schism \u2013\u00a0over the hot-bed issues of divorce, re-marriage, reconciliation, and basic family structure.<\/p>\n
Disturbing because\u00a0much of it has been fomented with\u00a0a\u00a0surprising\u00a0lack of charity<\/em>.<\/p>\nMy recent return to the Church makes me neither na\u00efve about its tumultuous history, nor unserious about\u00a0its future\u00a0difficulties.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, it is only by our grasping that history and\u00a0reflecting upon those difficulties that the Church\u00a0can avoid long-term, devastating, and otherwise inevitable failure.<\/p>\n
Ours is a universal Church.<\/p>\n
The original mega-Church<\/em> if you will.<\/p>\nAs such, the voices are always loud and many, the controversies\u00a0always deep and incessant.<\/p>\n
Every society, every culture, every generation seeks to impress upon the Church its own character, its own unique flavor.<\/p>\n
I suppose that that\u2019s the natural order of things, a way in which we seek to press our advantage.<\/p>\n
But controversy\u00a0that leads to an open and\u00a0sincere\u00a0discussion on the path towards guided discernment<\/em> can actually be a great source of comfort, and an excellent\u00a0resource\u00a0for further theological education.<\/p>\nIt is, in any event, unavoidable.<\/p>\n
But it needn\u2019t be, it shouldn\u2019t be, mean-spirited, rashly raised, or ever spoken in anger, one against another.<\/p>\n
When we tolerate wholesale personal abuse, the dark prince of this world\u00a0will surely find a way to wedge his foot into the very door that we ourselves have willingly pried open.<\/p>\n
Yes, the gates of hell shall not prevail; of that we have been eternally assured.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0we should never underestimate the power of our constant invitations\u00a0for it to try.<\/p>\n
As for me, this may well be my last word on this decidedly uncomfortable topic.<\/p>\n
So, yes, Groucho\u00a0speaks for me when he famously belted out:<\/p>\n
\u00a0H<\/em>ello, I must be going<\/em> . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Peace<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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