We need leaders not in love with money
but in love with justice.
Not in love with publicity
but in love with humanity.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The authority of leadership surely is ensuring that the conversation of the Church is fruitful, that no one voice dominates and drowns out others. It discerns the hidden harmony.
Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, wrote. “In turbulent times, there is an almost overwhelming temptation for religious leaders to be confrontational. Not only must truth be proclaimed but falsehood must be denounced. Choices must be set out as stark divisions. Not to condemn is to condone.”
But, he asserts, “a prophet hears not one imperative but two: guidance and compassion, a love of truth and an abiding solidarity with those for whom that truth has become eclipsed. To preserve tradition and at the same time defend those others condemn is the difficult, necessary task of religious leadership in an unreligious age.”
--Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe,
from his Synod Retreat Meditation
entitled "Authority"
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