Given at Christian Brothers College High School, Town and Country, Missouri. Readings for Today. Listen to our other homilies.
God, what are you going to do about it?
“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Death. It can feel like it is all around us. We probably know someone who as died. We may have had a loved one who died from some disease. Maybe a victim of crime. Perhaps war or oppression.
And the problem of evil in general, perhaps the problem of death particularly, is a very difficult problem to overcome. Why is there evil in the world? Why can’t God just take care of it?