Monday November 13, 2017
“Scandals will necessarily come.” We have been drowned in scandals everywhere, even within the Church. Once I heard a professor of theology add a fifth mark to the already existing four marks of the Church—that the Church is one, holy, catholic, apostolic, and funny. As a Church we are sometimes funny, and at other times, painfully scandalous. What do we do then? Leave the Church? And go where? Wherever we go and whichever human community we turn to, scandals will be there, for we are dealing with frail human nature.
What we can do is accept that fact that we, as a Church, are holy as well as sinful. If we can humbly accept our sinfulness, we will be able to ask for forgiveness, correct each other, and offer forgiveness when our brother or sister comes to us saying “I’m sorry” seven times or seventy times seven. We are a Church that is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. We are also a Church that is funny, sinful, penitent, and compassionate.
