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Most of us Catholics are too worldly, as we know from every examination of conscience — and yet, in another sense, we’re not worldly enough. We live in the world but, as Jesus says, we’re not of it . What does that mean in real life?
The general Catholic assumption is that we’re in the world the way a nuclear submarine is in the ocean. The Church lives a self-sufficient life, adapted to the world’s conditions, but not much affected by them and doing basically what she wants. Look at the typical response to the Church’s sex abuse scandals. Almost everyone — bishops and priests, Catholic writers, secular critics, your friends at church — explains the horror in moral or intellectual terms. They blame bad people and bad ideas .
I said no. It seemed obvious to me that an institution so big and venerable, which had grown across the world for 2,000 years, and frequently gained worldly power, would today be the way it is: unable, as a whole, as a visible institution, to live up to its own preaching, though preserving many signs of its true nature. I might not have entered the Church if I hadn’t seen that.
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