How St Bernard speaks to our time
At Charlotte Was Both, Amy Welborn wrote about St Bernard of Clairvaux’s De Consideratione, a set of letters addressed to Pope Eugenius III.
Welborn wrote that St Bernard’s letters can help us understand problems of our own time – and the role of individual Catholics. “Sometimes when people allude to historical problems with the Church and papacy,” she wrote, “it becomes a silencing weapon: Calm down! See! The Spirit always brings us through! Well, here’s the thing: The life of the Church is not a performance with the Holy Spirit pulling strings and waving wands, and the rest of us watching from the audience.
