Only God is God and God is Good: Archbishop Charles Chaput's Erasmus Lecture 20th October 2014

And God's goodness invites us to remember three things

1. We are a people of worship first and action second

Romano Guardini said that [The] Adoration [of God] is humanity's greatest instrument of truth. It's the safeguard of our mental health and integrity...Adoration breeds humility, and humility is the beginning of sanity. Adoration grounds our whole being in the real reality: the fact that God is God and man is His creation.

2. There are no unhappy saints.

"A Christian without joy is not a Christian". --Pope Francis

"Man is more manlike when joy is the fundamental thing in him and grief the superficial". --C.S. Lewis

3. We're in the world but not of the world. --Jesus Christ

A worldly Church is the most corrupt and ugliest worldliness.


The backdrop for the rest of the lecture is the following premise:

October 6 2014, declining to hear a variety of state appeals on the nature of marriage, the Supreme Court has effectively affirmed the validity of ""gay" marriage".