An Urgent Message from Fr. Owen Kearns LC, Publisher
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There is much to regret when a major cable television channel, as Easter approaches, airs a documentary claiming to have discovered Jesus’ tomb with his remains still inside it.
BY Father Owen Kearns
publisher
March 11-17, 2007 Issue |
Posted 3/6/07 at 9:00 AM
There is
much to regret when a major cable television channel, as Easter approaches,
airs a documentary claiming to have discovered Jesus’ tomb with his remains
still inside it.
The Resurrection is not simply vital
to our faith. It is the very basis for our faith. St. Paul put it best when he
said: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your
sins” (1 Corinthians 17). As regrettable as it is to think that such a documentary
would air at all, there is plenty of cause for hope.
Public relations experts say that
there is no such thing as bad press — even the wrong kind of attention is still
attention. That is not exactly true, but when it comes to Jesus, we often see
just such a paradoxical phenomenon. There are some people who obstinately and
deliberately want to reject him, but by and large, it seems that the more
interest and attention focused on Jesus, the more people come to believe in and
follow him.
If a popular entertainer made a
high-profile claim that George Washington died as a young man and had nothing
to do with the founding of the United States of America, he might shake some
people’s faith in that historical reality. But the more people looked into the
matter, the more they would learn how wrong that claim was. They would
simultaneously come to a greater “faith” in George Washington, and recognize
that belief in him was under attack. Well, like Washington, Jesus Christ’s
life, death and resurrection are truly a part of our history. In Christ’s case,
there is even more opportunity to set the record straight.
Not only is there ample evidence that the resurrection was
real, but Christ lives still. And he truly helps us to know him, if we ask.
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