"This Church in Philadelphia faces very serious challenges these days. There’s no quick fix to problems that are so difficult, and none of us here today, except the Lord Himself, is a miracle worker. But it's important to remember and to believe the Church is not defined by her failures. And you and I are not defined by our critics or by those who dislike us. What we do in the coming months and years to respond to these challenges – that will define who we really are. And in engaging that work, we need to be Catholics first, and always. Jesus Christ is the center of our lives, and the Church is our mother and teacher. Everything we do should flow from that."
On the Paradoxical Connection Between Love, Law and Joy – A Homily for the
6th Sunday of Easter
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In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency
to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus
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