"The lay faithful enjoined the clerics to work with them in attaining peace that “honors human dignity, protects human rights, and condemns institutional violence/forms of cruelty.” CBCP News
My comment: The Clergy need not take on the roles of social revolutionaries. If the Clergy will only diligently teach the Doctrines and the Catechism, not from the lens social activism but form the lens of the gospel, then every lay faithful who comes to church and to mass will be edified to become good citizens. We need priests who will instruct us in the teachings of the gospel, we need priests who will sit in the confessionals, we need priests who will stay in churches rather than stay invisible. How we long for homilies that seek to explain the mystery of the gospel rather than politics.
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But don't forget that the Gospel is lived beyond the parish church as it was also intended by Christ. Living the Gospel is a sign of contradiction in society. Sometimes the price of this is to foment a revolution and we should resist the temptation of a violent route.
I bring you the example of Father Maxmilian Kolbe. Now would Father Kolbe's witness be more inspiring in the parish church or in the hell hole of Auschwitz? Truly he would have been holy in church (as he really was) but God called him to be holy in a hell of our making. I believe his sign of contradiction at Auschwitz was better since countless atheists were returned to God but his example.
Father Kolbe our Martyr of Charity is indeed a revolutionary. Nazism is dead but Kolbe's Charity is alive!
We have to pray for our priests who are even outside the church buildings are another Christ.
Father Kolbe, ora pro nobis.
But in some parishes here in the Philippines some priests can hardly be found even on a Sunday when they are suppose to be in Church all day.
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