The Catholic News You Never Hear
I’ve started reading “Rediscovering Catholicism” by Matthew Kelly and I wanted to share a one quotations from the opening pages:
“Every single day the Catholic Church feeds, houses, and clothes more people, takes care of more sick people, visits more prisoners, and educates more people than any other institution on the face of the earth could ever hope to…
The Catholic education system alone saves American taxpayers eighteen billion dollars a year…
This year, catholic charities will provide 2.2 million free meals to the hungry and the needy of Chicago. We don’t ask them if they are Catholic – we just ask them if they are hungry”
– Matthew Kelly, Rediscovering Catholicism
When there is a scandal in the Catholic Church it is blasted from every media outlet so that the whole world gets to hear about it. Yet how is it that the continued good works of the Church so often go unreported?
Aside from the fact that it’s not as sensational, it’s not news! This is the same service which the Church has offered the world every day for two thousand years. It ceased being news a long time ago…
Yet how is it that the continued good works of the Church so often go unreported?
This is true of Christianity in general, though the Catholic Church seems to get more of this sort of selective “coverage”… maybe because it’s the largest target. Generation after generation of people quietly trying to do right by God and their neighbor doesn’t titillate anyone or provide any fodder for outrage. And what would we do without outrage?
Ah, the outrage!
Welcome to the Restless Pilgrim, by the way!
Glad you’re finally reading that book. (thanks, by the way!) I have a whole list of quotes I’ve highlighted through the book. It’s got a lot of *boom* worthy quotes.