Monday, March 11, 2013

Prophetic Voice

It seems that the Cardinals are looking for a Pope who might be a prophetic voice.  Jesus was a prophetic voice.  He introduced something new, and he got rejected by the status quo power structures. A lot of people were not ready for him either.  When my Church gets stuck, it acts like a privileged institution that defends the status quo.  There is a difference between "Tradition" which is quite valuable, and simply trying to live in the past.  A prophet does not call people to go back in history.  The past is past.  The prophet calls people to live out the transforming meaning of the past.  Maybe we could start with the Gospel.  How can we call people to live the transforming meaning of the gospel in the modern world?  I don't think that Jesus wanted his followers to dominate or conquer the world, two ways that the Institutional Church went in the past.  Might not a Church that dialogues be more able to influence the post modern world, than one that simply talks at you with speeches?

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