The Church must learn to hear and heed the real questions of the world today if we would properly proclaim Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.An Iraqi Christian refugee boy sits at his desk during a Catechism class at a Catholic school on the outskirts of Beirut on Nov. 15, 2010. When I graduated from our parish elementary school, I was awarded a medal for having memorized all the 499 questions and answers in the catechism.
Oh, there were, indeed, questions that my schoolmates and studies presented. “Why do you believe?” “What makes you think your religion is better than anyone else’s?” “Why did you Christians put my parents and so many others of my people into concentration camps from which so few emerged?”There were other questions that arose from within me.
The catechism I learned and so much of what the Church puts forward as its teaching does not answer or even recognize the questions that the world actually faces and for which men and women struggle to find answers and discover how they might come to recognize Jesus as the Answer. Sometimes the problem is that people are unwilling to face ambiguity and expect answers before there has been any opportunity to probe the question and develop a response. Journalists frequently do that, cornering prelates or curia offices to respond, for instance, to some just-that-morning-announced event, discovery or scientific development. Even parish priests face the same expectation of instant answers at the church door after Mass.
This is especially the case with science and technology. New questions are often provoked by new knowledge. Old answers instead of new research and thinking will not suffice and will ultimately turn thoughtful people away.
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