2 May 2018
The mass communications we have today can be a good
thing. Whether that’s tv or radio, the
internet or social media, it’s helpful to know what’s going on out in the
world. Sometimes, however, it can be
problem because everybody has a platform to say whatever they want—even if
somebody is dead wrong about something.
And that’s where mass communication can be a problem.
How do you decipher the good arguments from the bad
ones? Which voices do you listen to, and
which ones do you ignore? Every time we
engage the world of mass communications we have to ask those questions. But when it comes to matters of faith we know
who to listen more closely to.
In the Acts of the Apostles, there was a dispute about circumcision. And without any hesitation, they said, “Let’s
take this matter to the Apostles and the elders in Jerusalem.” When it comes to matters of faith, we have a
built in structure of authority in the Church.
And I don’t mean “authority” as in “power;” but rather “authority” as in
“trusted groups of knowledgeable people.”
And they’ve been there from the beginning. Those would be the bishops, and with them:
theologians, philosophers, and poets.
We don’t have to think too much about who to turn to when we
have questions of faith. We turn to
those people whom God has given us to be our guides. May we give a little more weight to what they
say. And may they be strong in faith, so
as to lead us into a deeper life of faith, too.
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