Originally published at National Catholic Register
COMMENTARY: We should, above all, pray for a pope who kneels before the divine mystery as revealed in Scripture and Tradition.
Ralph Fiennes is a remarkable actor. And if he wins an Academy Award for his brilliant performance in Conclave, this section of his masterfully delivered homily to the College of Cardinals, of which he plays the Dean, is likely to be cited frequently:
Let me speak from the heart for a moment.
St. Paul said, “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.” To work together, to grow together, we must be tolerant, no one person or faction seeking to dominate another.
And speaking to the Ephesians, who were, of course, a mix of Jews and Gentiles, Paul reminds us that God’s gift to the Church is its variety, this diversity of people and views that gives the Church its strength.
And over the course of many years of service to our mother, the Church, there is one sin which I have come to fear above all others: certainty.
Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end. “My God, my God,
