“They gave [the gold] to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.” Aaron’s answer to Moses about the origin of the golden calf sounds a lot like a modern politician saying “mistakes were made.” I remember in school someone went to the teacher holding the shattered glass, “It broke.” To which the response was, “It doesn’t break. Someone breaks it.” All of which is to say that the human tendency to avoid responsibility seems endemic to the species. One of the great gifts we have as Catholics is the sacrament of confession. There we have the opportunity to admit what we have done and, most importantly, to hear God’s word of forgiveness no matter what we have done.
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By Church Staff
