Gospel: Luke 12: 53-59
Jesus takes us to task for failing to see what is just and unjust when we are perfectly capable of discerning the weather. It may be more the case that we refuse to accept what is just and unjust, that we must be forced to admit so publicly in a courtroom. We have failed time and again to say and do what was right, and now we are forced to do so by external forces and not because of the good itself. Woe to us.
This very passage has been the entire history of the church in the last thirty years. After generations of failing and refusing to say and do what is right regarding the sexual sins of the clergy, the hierarchy of the Church found itself coerced into doing so through court action. The hierarchy is never at a loss of words regarding sexual practice among the laity, but somehow manage to maintain omerta regarding clerical behavior.
The Church will never again have any credibility in moral matters until we are able to once again discern and acknowledge openly what is right and wrong for everyone, not just for some. Until then, it is for us as individuals to have this integrity in our own lives, to live humble lives of service, holding ourselves accountable for our sins in the sacrament of reconciliation.
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