Fr. Benedict Kiely: The Drama and the Dogma

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, The Catholic Thing, November 22, 2024

Fr. Benedict Kiely is a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He is the founder of Nasarean.org, helping persecuted Christians.

I recently saw a request on social media for people to say why they were Christians in five words or less. I was tempted to paraphrase Chesterton’s reason for his Catholicism and use three words: “It is true.” Then I remembered novelist and Catholic convert Walker Percy, when asked why he had converted to Catholicism, responded: “What else is there?”

Is there any greater mission statement, which every parish seems to require, or a better blueprint for evangelization? There is, of course, only one real mission statement, the “Great Commission” of Christ in St. Mark’s Gospel. When you view the alternatives offered to twenty-first-century man – the green religion, sexual revolution, nihilism, or a return to Communism, indeed any false hope in a political solution to man’s needs – “What else is there?” stands up well as expressing the truth of the Catholic faith. ….

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