A Preview of My Homily for This Weekend and an Invitation to the Parish
In a recent article on Medium, Stephanie Leguichard criticized Stephen Pinker a professor of evolutionary psychology what she says is his dismissing the need for the science of Anthropology. Pinker is also an atheist and it would be easy to see how an atheist and an anthropologist could easily be on opposite sides.
This really highlights the truth that science is a discipline of observations and observations need to be tested and examined before we declare them to be truths.
You can read the first draft of my homily for this weekend, HERE.
I discuss what it really means to be a Catholic. Notice I focus on the word Catholic and not Christian although all Catholics are Christians (but not all Christians are Catholic). We believe in Scripture and Tradition whereas other Christians solely focus on Scripture. The other question is who are we really?
Jesus in Sunday’s Gospel calls us to understand that following him not only has a cost but there is a reason for that cost.
Again, keeping in mind that those to whom I am preaching live in between Harvard Square in Cambridge and Packer’s Corner in Boston which is on the edge of the Boston University campus, you can see my parishioners may be dealing with those who reject the truths of faith daily.
So this week’s homily will deal with why it is that we believe since I am surrounded by institutions that boast of atheists such as Steven Pinker (Harvard) and Daniel Dennett (Tufts), you can see I take a far different approach than they, obviously.
I have done the below experiment a few times with limited success, so why not try it again?
If you live in the Boston, Massachusetts area and you go to CatholicAudioMedia.com you can see in the middle of the page, there is a coupon. Download it and print it out and come to our 10:00 am Mass on Sundays at St. Anthony Parish 43 Holton St. in Allston, MA. Put the coupon in the collection basket instead of a donation. This gives you a chance to visit the church and see what it is like. You are welcome to offer suggestions on how to build up this parish as you may see it needs.
For those who did not hear my take on the Atlantic article on the concern about guns, you can hear it over here.
Fr. Robert J Carr, the administrator of St. Anthony Parish,is the author of Encounter Christ in Your Humanity