It was truly a glorious moment: the coordinator, standing with his mouth agape in front of what was clearly a majority-Catholic audience; the monks, all lined up and staring at a man in a black cassock who was now kneeling in front of them, chanting true prayers, having clearly hijacked the event; and the sound... oh... the sound of some 200 Catholics, chanting Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, in a basilica whose acoustics easily make 200 voices sound like 200,000 voices.
I got choked up. Who wouldn't? No sooner had they sung the first few lines, "I believe in one God, the Father almighty," than they had effectively denounced the heresy of Buddhism's polytheism, and filled the air with the reaffirmation of the Truth: there is one God, and He alone is all-powerful.
Arise, O Lord…
We need more priests like Fr. McMahon and men and women who support them and will stand up to the falsehoods and heresy that surrounds us.
I had the privilege of meeting Fr. McMahon briefly. He is not only impressive in his faithfulness and holiness, but in his physical stature as well. He looks like he could be a Marine if he wasn't a priest. A fine representative of the Church Militant, he is.