Cardinal Wuerl’s homily is lovely. I hope people take the time to read the entire thing and seriously think about what he is saying. He is very much at the forefront of the New Evangelization and you can tell from his homily.
His words bolster the morale of the Catholic community at George Washington University, reaffirms the truth of the Church’s message and the encourages us all to remain steadfast in the face of persecution.
However, he also says:
"I want to make something very, very clear. Our response must be the response of Jesus Christ, the response of his Church, a response rooted in love. When we are attacked, there will always be the temptation to respond in kind. But we must respond out of who we are. We are followers of Jesus Christ.
But we also need to remember that we all know people – homosexual and heterosexual alike – who may disagree with particular teachings of the Church, but do not express that disagreement by demanding that the Church and her ministers be silenced.
We all struggle to live up to the demands of the Gospel – even when we fail – because we know that what Jesus and his Church teach are the words of everlasting life."
My favorite line in the homily is this:
“We have so much more to offer and so does America. There should be tolerance and respect among all people. There has to be room enough in America in a society as large, as free and pluralistic as ours to make space for all of us.”
I get attacked a lot on this forum for being too “tolerant” and not expressing enough “outrage” at the sins of secular culture and this makes me feel a lot better.
cardinalsblog.adw.org/2013/04/homily-from-mass-with-gw-students/
