Lightly Salted

I recently spoke to a number of people who had questions about a specific aspect of the Catholic faith. One was interested in a very specific moral situation, another asked about Marian dogma, still another about which books are in the Bible.

There is nothing unusual about those questions. They are the symptoms of a human mind wrestling with reality. The common factor in all these was that the person asking the question was frustrated that everyone they asked either insisted on giving a rigid formulaic answer or simply did not care. Nobody seemed to be interested in the answer, or in understanding what is behind the formula.

I think that is the most serious problem with Western society in general, and which is undermining Western Christianity.