Madison, Wis., Mar 19, 2009 / 17:04 pm
In a column published today by the Madison Catholic Herald, Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, reminds Catholics that the Church’s real business is Truth, not conforming to subjective desires or cultural trends. Bishop Morlino also warns Catholics that they need to respond to what he describes as a "credibility crisis."
In his reflection “at the midpoint of Lent,” Morlino recalls last Sunday’s Gospel reading about Jesus' reaction to the moneychangers and traders in the Temple.
“I myself do not get angry often,” writes Bishop Morlino, “but sometimes I get angry, and it is consoling to me that Jesus got angry too when things went too far - when they turned His temple into a market place. He Himself got angry and he made a whip of cords, and we should think about that from time to time.”
“The Church is here to teach the Truth and thus to sanctify the world. The Church is in the Truth business," the Bishop of Madison says, reminding that “in addition to those Truths which we can know by reason alone, by the Natural Law, there are Truths which we, as Catholics, must accept both from Divine Revelation in Holy Scripture and through the Authentic Magisterium of the Church.”