Thursday, September 5, 2019

“If God appears dead in our nuclear age it is because Christians and arid people have isolated Christ from His Cross.  Some priests and religious have love enough for the hungry, but not love enough to redeem from guilt.  The priest, in order to relate himself better to the world, may preach a ‘social Christ’ or a ‘political Christ’ or a ‘revolutionary Christ,’ but such indifference to the crucifixion produce sermons that are ‘sounding brass and clinking cymbals.’  Mother Teresa of Calcutta expressed this idea: ‘serving of the poor without the love of Christ crucified is social work.’”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Those Mysterious Priests)

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