The Church

Wounded Children, Wounded Church

By Fr. Mike Mireau

So once again, AGAIN, the headlines are filled with bad news, of child abuse perpetrated by Priests, covered up by bishops - this time in Ireland, where Catholicism is as interwoven into the national identity as shamrocks and green beer - and now in Europe. Its the same sad story we saw a few years back in the U.S., and over a decade ago here in Canada.

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Why I Am A Catholic

By G. K. Chesterton

From Twelve Modern Apostles and Their Creeds (1926)
Reprinted in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. 3 Ignatius Press 1990

The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. I could fill all my space with separate sentences each beginning with the words, "It is the only thing that . . ." As, for instance, (1) It is the only thing that really prevents a sin from being a secret. (2) It is the only thing in which the superior cannot be superior; in the sense of supercilious. (3) It is the only thing that frees a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. (4) It is the only thing that talks as if it were the truth; as if it were a real messenger refusing to tamper with a real message. (5) It is the only type of Christianity that really contains every type of man; even the respectable man. (6) It is the only large attempt to change the world from the inside; working through wills and not laws; and so on.

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