This past Sunday’s Gospel reading (the parable of the wicked servants) got me to thinking some about Bob Sungenis.

As Bill Cork pointed out so eloquently last week, Bob Sungenis teaches that God came to reject those who had been His chosen people in favor of the Church – the new chosen people.

The end of the parable, though, sticks in my mind. It’s said that the landlord will put the wretched men to a wretched death. It doesn’t mention anything at all about the families of the sinners. There’s no bloodguilt. There’s simply a set of consequences for the people who committed one horrible act.

There’s a later change in the tenancy, but that doesn’t require that all relatives of the previous tenants be kept away. Looking at history, we see that the institutions that actively opposed Jesus during His earthly ministry came to an end long ago – indeed the institution He founded is one of very few institutions to have survived so long on earth. We also learn from Scripture and Tradition that God loves all people He has created.

May God grant me the grace to resist the temptation to believe that anyone is beyond His mercy.