What The World Needs Now Is...
After truth, love is probably the most abused word in the English language. Well, maybe it's a tie between those two words for the title of 'Word Most Wounded'. When truth suffers, so also love.
What is truth? Pontius Pilate asked Jesus this question as Jesus stood before him falsely accused. What Pontius Pilate didn't realize is that the answer to his question stood right before his eyes.
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St John 18:38
Pontius Pilate puts Jesus on trial and asks him, "Quid est veritas?" "What is truth?" Jesus does not respond, nor does he need to speak. He is the Eternal Word, the Logos. The question already contains the answer. "Est vir qui adest." "It is the man who stands (is) before you." The Answer was standing right in front of Pontius Pilate. Ordinariate Treasure TwitterX
Most faithful Catholics are more than likely aware that the word 'truth' can mean anything you want it to nowadays; love, too. Consequently, both words have become meaningless. Truth and love are mirrors that, if not stained by the grime of relativism, compel people to confront their human dignity and their departures from said dignity.
356 Of all visible creatures only man is "able to know and love his creator". He is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for himself", and he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God's own life. It was for this end that he was created, and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity:
What made you establish man in so great a dignity? Certainly the incalculable love by which you have looked on your creature in yourself! You are taken with love for her; for by love indeed you created her, by love you have given her a being capable of tasting your eternal Good.
357 Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons. and he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to offer him a response of faith and love that no other creature can give in his stead.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The twin evils of psychological devastation and physical death are rising to pandemic levels among young people who have been persuaded that fiction trumps biological-genetic truth.
Young people are succumbing to slow suicide or, in many cases, early suicide. Governments, social organizations and educational institutions have enacted punishing traps that attempt to bully people into silence and submission, merciless traps that compel family members and friends to accept the mutilation of their loved ones by chemicals and/or life-inhibiting surgeries.
Sir Roger Scruton (...) diagnosed our times perfectly when he said “this…is the most important feature of our postmodern culture – that it is a loveless culture”.
Catholic theology explains that evil is the absence of good where good ought to be, rather than an active thing in itself – it is a negation. Therefore, parents who don’t parent, investigators who don’t investigate, union reps who don’t represent are part and parcel of what evil is and how it operates in the world. People are entirely mistaken to think that they’re not culpable for turning away from another’s screams, even if they’re not the screams’ cause.
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