The Foot In My Mouth

Crisis Magazine e-Letter

August 22, 2006


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Dear Friend,

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Second thing... I need to correct an item from my last e-Letter.

Sometimes I come up with a line that sounds cute and clever at
first, but upon further reflection, is actually kind of dumb. In my
last e-Letter, I opened with one of those lines.

Here's what I said: "Faithful Catholics start families. Dissenting
Catholics start organizations."

The fact is, plenty of faithful Catholics start organizations and
apostolates (and, to be fair, plenty of dissenting Catholics start
families as well). While it's true that dissenting groups seem to be
popping up left and right, it's also true that good Catholics should
be open to the call to start something themselves. Patrick Reilly, a
friend, a family man, and the president of the Cardinal Newman
Society, made this point in an e-mail to me:

"One could probably make a strong argument that, if only everything
were right with the Church -- if its leadership, institutions
(especially its schools and colleges), and parents were effectively
spreading the Gospel message and bringing people to Christ while
handing down the Faith to new generations -- an inclination to
establish an independent, lay-run organization without direct
supervision by the Church might only come from dissidents.  But such
is not the case today, and I am quite certain that the Holy Spirit is
actively calling faithful Catholic men and women to serve the Church
in a unique way that involves much personal suffering: as leaders of
apostolates to renew the Church where human nature has caused it to
become stale or even sinful."

He's right on the money. In a time of ecclesial weakness, faithful
Catholics need to pick up the slack. Indeed, one sign of the current
renewal in the Catholic Church is the growing number of solid
Catholic organizations. May they multiply.

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Talk to you next week,

Brian



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