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Archbishop Chaput at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception July 8, 2013.
.- While the search for knowledge is universal, spanning all times and places, true wisdom is found in the Church and points us towards salvation in Christ, said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia.
“Wisdom is the pursuit of the true, the right, and the lasting,” which find their source “in God, and nowhere else but God,” the archbishop said in a July 8 talk.
“Power, sex, knowledge, money, possessions – none of these things finally lasts,” he explained. “Wisdom consists in turning our hearts to the search for what does satisfy that hunger, and then pursuing it with all our strength.”
Archbishop Chaput gave his talk, entitled “Wisdom, Christian Life and the Year of Faith,” at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
He explained that wisdom is integrally linked with knowledge of God, and the Church is the most reliable bearer of this knowledge. As the Church becomes minimized in society, he said, so also does wisdom, and society turns in upon the self, technology and tools for its nourishment.
“The more secular we become, the less we care about the true, the right and the lasting. And here’s the reason: We don’t really believe they exist. Or we simply don’t care,” the archbishop said.
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