What Are We Gonna Do About That Black Mass?
“ Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!” Matt 18:7 Some of you may not follow the Catholic internet media or follow the blogs. One of the big stories over the past week is that a student group from Harvard University was to host a Black Mass “reenactment” performed by the members of the Satanic Temple this past Monday. I suppose that to write about it the following Wednesday makes me a Johnny come lately, a couple of days late and a couple of dollars short. Then to ask what we are going to do about it after we have already done it just seems ridiculous. Well, all I can say is wait for it, because there is relevance for us as Catholics even after the fact. We may have successfully come against that Black Mass, but I think that we are being called to something beyond a particular event. We are being called to a continuing task. It seems to me that there is some significance in the fact that...