"I am the way and the truth and the life”

"No one comes to the Father except through me."

These magnificent words of our Lord in today’s Gospel (Jn. 14:1-6) are familiar even to those who are not great students of the Gospels.

And yet, in today’s politically correct world, anyone who might think to take these words seriously is condemned by this world’s elites - even by those who call themselves “Catholic” and “Christian.”

To be sure, God works in mysterious ways: that is to say, in and through the person of our Lord Jesus Christ in a mysterious way that is real even when not explicitly apparent.

Our job as Christians is to help make that connection more explicitly apparent and to help make people’s connection with Christ fuller, deeper, and more complete.

We need to respect sincere people of all faiths and to be sincere ourselves in our dialogue with them as part of our proclamation of the Truth of Jesus Christ, who is the perfect revelation of God, the one Mediator, and the only Savior and who reaches out in love to all people.