"You shouldn't be so judgemental!"

In today's culture, we're often told that making judgments is uncharitable. But Christianity requires us to make judgments every day—not about the state of another person's soul, but about what is true and false, good and evil, beautiful and ugly.

We judge that truth exists. We judge that marriage has a real definition. We judge that men and women are not interchangeable. We judge that some actions lead us closer to God while others lead us away from Him. Without those judgments, morality collapses into personal preference and God's revelation becomes meaningless.

This reflection from Father McTeigue, S.J.'s timely presentation: "Faith In A Time of Crisis", explores the difference between sinful judgment of persons and the necessary moral judgments that every faithful Christian must make. If God has revealed truth through Scripture, natural law, and the Church founded by Christ, then believers have a duty not only to receive that truth, but to preserve it and pass it on to the next generation.

One day, each of us will be asked what we did with the faith we received. Did we defend it? Did we teach it? Did we live it? Or did we remain silent when truth was being denied?