CNS STORY: Bishops discuss integrating doctrine, Scripture and preaching

Don Clemmer of Catholic News Service (CNS) reported on a seminar for Bishops held February 11th-13th on the relationship of Doctrine and Scripture in Catholic teaching with an emphasis on homilies. Here is a snippet:

Preaching his homily on the final afternoon of the seminar, Cardinal Levada recalled how God called upon Jonah to save the people of Nineveh by preaching his word.

"If Jonah could be eloquent under those circumstances," said Cardinal Levada of the reluctant prophet, "how much more eloquent, brother bishops, can you and I be? An eloquence not from our own skills, but from the Spirit teaching us."

He continued, "Only Jesus can lead us in the Spirit and make us sharers in the Holy Trinity. It's not what we say or do, but the person of the risen Christ, present in the word and the sacrament. This is how we are drawn into communion with God."

Read the entire story here.