Individually and together “all have fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). ![]() Holy: How do we reject intimate union with God and others? With what hypocrisies do we live? Where do we lack the gospel’s integrity and authenticity? When are we deaf to the call to conversion and beatitude?Ĭatholic: What areas of our lives are kept “safe” from the call of faith? Which people seem too far away or too different to claim our care and resources? How do we prize uniform individualism over diverse unity?Īpostolic: How do we respond to the gospel with fear rather than faith? When do we reject Christ’s mission, or categorize it narrowly to suit ourselves rather than to promote God’s reign? How do we practice Christ’s mission-through love or by power and domination? One: What divisions do we profit from or promote? With whom do we refuse to be in solidarity? When do we deny forgiveness or ignore opportunities for reconciliation? How do we violate the call to care for all creation? What should we do when the brokenness of Catholics, as individuals and as a communion, inveighs against our Catholic identity? The final portion of the creed might serve as an ecclesial examination of conscience: To describe “why I am (still) Catholic” implies faithful and critical evaluation of what it means to be Catholic, or at least of how Catholicism has been lived out within history and in our present moment. ![]() ![]() Yet it is the topic of Theological Shark Week that prods me to think about our human limitations. Perhaps it’s not by chance that brokenness is on my mind-after all, we are drawing close to the season of Lent.
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