CATCH THE GOOD
It
almost seemed like the Lord was picking on the scribes, the Pharisees
and the scholars of the Law. Yet one more time, our Gospel passage puts
them at center stage, with the Lord giving them a mouthful. He was
preaching, in and out of season, and He told them like it is. But the
same passage tells us how His interlocutors plotted to catch Him in
everything He says.
Today, I am aghast at what I see every day in the world of social
networking and liberal mainstream media. I see how so many
sensationalists, passing off as legitimate journalists, seem to wait for
the Holy Father’s latest faux pas, the latest misstep, and the most
juicy statement, which they invariably take out of context in order to
push their liberal agenda or sow intrigue and confusion in the minds of
readers.
When Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI announced last year that he was
stepping down from office, such a tendency to put color into every event
in the
Catholic Church became very obvious. The major news networks were
abuzz, calling in one “Vatican observer” or “Vatican expert” after
another, trying to squeeze from everyone their take on “what is really
going on” in the “secretive” Vatican enclaves. All this in order to
impress upon the masses a less than holy and sacrosanct Church, now
painted and alluded to as breeding ground of all forms of corruption
and deceit, or at the very least a Church “no longer in touch with
postmodernity.”
How times have changed and how they have remained the same! The
modern-day “scholars of the law” have been very busy looking at the Church’s flaws and failings, while closing their eyes on the good She does in
all times and cultures. A group of them has even sued the Vatican in
the international courts, for violations against human rights!
What about plotting to catch the good in what everybody says or does? Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB
REFLECTION QUESTION: Do you have a tendency to criticize a lot and catch other people’s mistakes?
Forgive me, Lord, for the times I was too uncharitable to others and saw only their weaknesses and failures.
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