CNA/CWR: Lincoln diocese reports on ‘wrong and inappropriate conduct’ of former vocations director
“Despite Msgr. Kalin’s many positive contributions to build a faithful community at the Newman Center, the investigation findings regarding his wrong and inappropriate conduct are disturbing and painful,” reads an April 29 letter from Archbishop George Lucas, the diocesan apostolic administrator.
Can his contributions be said to be "positive" if they were based on the same sort of disorderd self-love that motivated his reprehensible actions? If only God can judge, then why say anything about his "career" at all?
Bishop Robert Barron's latest: The Quarantine’s Three Lessons About the Church
At the liturgy, we are meant to come together in close proximity so that we can pray in unison, sing in unison, process together, embrace one another, gesture in harmony with each other. In all of this, the incarnational quality of the Church becomes concretely expressed. And this is what has made the last six weeks so particularly difficult for Catholics. Our faith is not primarily an internal business, something negotiated between the individual and the invisible Lord. Rather, it shows up physically and publicly, through bodies. Once again, I would hope that our fasting from togetherness will heighten our appreciation for this incarnational density of our faith.
So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.
Seems rather inadequate. If I am not even sure if they are orthodox Christian, or have reason to believe that they are not, why should I wish to pray with them?
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