Preachin' to the Choir

After a pleasant conversation over morning coffee with a good friend, in which we had mostly nodded in agreement over the current-day challenges facing the Catholic faithful, she said to me, "Well, we're preachin' to the choir, aren't we!"  Of course, the notion of "preachin' to the choir" is that we are all in agreement and there is really nothing left to discuss.  But with the errant and false notes being sounded, especially of late, by some untrained voices in the diverse and beautiful American Catholic choir, the symphony has turned into cacophony.  On the most basic of Catholic beliefs, we have lost the melody line.  As a community of the Catholic faithful, we are out of sync, we are out of tune!  Some preachin' to the choir is exactly what needs to happen.