Nov 27, 2007 / 16:31 pm
At a Mass in Rome this past Saturday, Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, delivered a homily in which he analyzed the current trends of globalization, secularization and the dignity of human life in modern culture.
Addressing the attendees of the Second World Congress of the Ecclesial Organizations working for Justice and Peace, Bishop Wenski linked the events depicted in the Book of Maccabees to present-day globalization.
Though echoing Pope John Paul II's advice that globalization itself is "neither all light nor is it all shadow," he said the ancient Greek attempt to forcibly assimilate the Jews was in some ways similar to present-day globalizing trends.
"The Greeks were insisting that the Jews adopt their ways - and their gods. In other words, they held that the God of the Jewish people, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, did not matter," Bishop Wenski said.