These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Christ the King, 2024

So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say I am a king.  For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." (Jn 18:33b-37)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112424.cfm
In a time like ours when political discourse and reason has been replaced by conspiracy theories and boldfaced lies, truth has become a rare commodity. But truth matters, as Jesus says. And today we are reminded that the one who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords is not the one who throws his weight around and claims executive privilege and power, but rather the one who testifies to the truth and dies on a Cross.