Catholics need a dash of confidence
SIR – Hearing Boris Johnson expounding in the House of Commons his belief in the greatness of the United Kingdom, his unchecked confidence in its future and his insistence that what seems impossible is possible, it occurred to me that in 40 years of being a Catholic I had never heard a similar rousing recommendation of the Church. I had never heard something that would make a young person think: “Yes! That’s for me!” Perhaps John Paul II came near to it.
More often there is an apologetic tone, defensive and afraid to state Church teaching on matters which aren’t popular. There seem to be too many seeing the Church through the eyes of the world and not the world through the eyes of the Church.
