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A while ago, I found
myself jokingly using a nickname for those people who were not
familiar with the Catholic faith: 'normals'. This was a funny way for
me to remark on the fact that we as Catholics, and Jesuits in
particular, can use a lot of jargon that is unfamiliar to the rest of
contemporary society. It was a reminder to myself not to use arcane
terminology when simpler words sufficed. However, it got me to
thinking.
We believers love to be
counter-cultural. If the world moves one way, many of us are inclined
to move the other. If you are a believer, I ask you the following
question: do you see yourself as normal and the rest of the
non-believing or different-believing world as abnormal? Or is it the
other way: is the world normal and we ourselves the ones who are
different?
