Baltimore, Md., Nov 19, 2012 / 11:58 am
The current Year of Faith is an opportunity to counter the cultural relativism that plagues modern society and that has led many in the Church to deny Catholic teaching on important topics, said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia.
"The appropriate response to relativism is faith, where you no longer are the center of the universe, you are no longer the one who decides what's true, but you commit yourself in faith to God's truth," he told CNA on Nov. 12.
Among the biggest current challenges for the Church in the U.S. is addressing those "who say they're Catholic but don't believe what the Catholic Church teaches," the archbishop stated. "The hardest thing is to convince them that they need to change."
"So many people just think they're Catholic already and think that they have a right to decide for themselves what's Catholic and what's not," he observed, adding that "we're just not getting through to them because they don't think they need to be gotten through to."