The homily we’re all waiting for

No doubt you the news that came out of New Jersey last week. [Came out - I love that!] Governor James McGreevey announced his resignation and shockingly revealed that he… is… a…

[pause here while parents cover the ears of their small children and other grip the seat of the pew in fear of what is coming]

...RELATIVIST! A relativist! A flagrant relativist! In his speech he admitted no less when he said, "One has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world." McGreevey would have us believe we make up truth as we go along, that each of us is the author of our own individual truth. This is contrary to what we as Catholics profess regarding faith and morals, namely that truth is objective, it is a universal standard that applies to all, not a subjective whim. Christ says in the Gospel, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” There is only one way, one truth, and one life. It is Christ and no other.

Sadly, McGreevey’s is an ever-increasing lot. Yes, relativists are in our schools, our places of business, our government, and even our Church. It pains me to tell you that there are even priests and Bishops who are relativists. [Some women begin to pinch their babies to make them howl.] We don’t each have our own truths of morals and faith, only the one truth that is preserved and taught by the Catholic Church. “Sing a new church into being,” the new age hymn goes. There is no new church worth following, only the Church that was born of the side of Christ as He hung on the Cross.

Don’t be a relativist – you’ll go to Hell.

Please stand for the Creed.