In an article published by the National Catholic Register, Ashley McGuire shares how what is needed most from the next Pope is clarity and direction for an unstable world. In her article titled, “Why I Want the Next Pope to Help Lost Souls Find Their Way,” she writes:
“The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular — first caught my attention when I was a semi-lapsed Protestant attending a quintessentially secular, Marxist-leaning university in Boston. Reading The New York Times in the dining hall, I stopped at the story about Pope Benedict’s so-called “Regensburg Address.”
What had this elderly and strangely dressed figurehead said that had people fire-torching convents?” I wondered to myself. I went back to my dorm room and printed it out and read it in one sitting.
It pierced my mind with its depth and clarity. After four years of moral relativism with an intellectual veneer, I was not accustomed to reading anything so strikingly … bold. A total takedown of relativism, it was written on a moral and intellectual plane I had never encountered….
It feels as though every single current in our culture flows against the path to human happiness, which can only be achieved by abiding in the light of Christ. And so, I would posit that now is the time to proclaim the Church’s teachings that run against the cultural grains with more clarity than ever.”
