The Case for Stability...

Nussbaum writes about the virtue of stability in her column at NCR here. This is what the saints in the pews do for the church and especially for young adults, week after week, if only we'd listen to them....

"Parish memory is an antidote to nostalgia. There was never a golden age when we prayed without ceasing, cared for the poor without complaining and shunned gossip. There was never a time when our priests were all attentive and wise in the confessional, eloquent yet brief at the ambo and saints on the streets. Lay and clergy, they were like us, humans who try -- and fail -- to love God and their neighbors."