Interesting connection with this morning’s homily at St. Benedict Abbey. We heard about two American women, one already a saint...Kathleen Drexel, a convert to Catholicism, and Rose Hawthorne, Nathaniel’s daughter...on her way to sainthood. Both women dedicated their lives to the poor, Kathleen having inherited a huge fortune, devoted it to blacks and other minorities, founding schools, etc.. Rose Hawthorne dedicated her life to caring for cancer patients on an island in NY Harbor, where they’d been ‘dumped’. At that time, early 20th century, they were treated like lepers. She founded an order of religious and treated those terminally ill with cancer.
The homily juxtaposed the actions of both these women, well born, and in the case of Kathleen Drexel, rich, with the antics of the Paris Hiltons, et. al of today. If CNN had to report that they’d given their wealth to the poor and dedicated their lives to helping others, CNN would probably have a complete meltdown.
I agree. That kind of selflessness and self-sacrificial Christian love for the down and out is most likely beyond the capability of people like the majority of the CNN staff and management to understand.
I think Ted Turner is still the owner of CNN isn't he? Ted has publicly criticized Christianity and blasphemed our Saviour on many occasions, but I pray that he will repent and turn to Christ before his earthly life ends. I don't wish eternal damnation on anyone no matter how much I am offended by their political or religious views and their profligate lifestyles. Jesus died for them just as he died for me and I don't deserve salvation any more so than Turner does. But He offers it to all who will believe on Him and accept Him as Lord in accordance with His salvation plan as per the Apostle Paul's divinely inspired letter to the Romans, ch 10: vv 9-10. God's amazing grace is just that, amazing.