Bishop Larry Silva will be giving a lecture for the Institute of Catholic Culture in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 19.
The event will held at St. Agnes Church hall in Arlington at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Standard time. It will be live-streamed on the Institute of Catholic Culture website, www.instituteofcatholicculture.org, at 2:30 p.m. Hawaii time.
The bishop’s lecture is titled “Who Am I to Judge? Divine Mercy and Diabolical Deception.” In an email to the Hawaii Catholic Herald, Bishop Silva explained that the lecture is based on the homily he gave on Divine Mercy Sunday earlier this year. Event organizers at the Institute of Catholic Culture thought the topic appropriate for the upcoming Jubilee of Mercy.
“The talk will be expanded and will cover some of the reasons I feel we can easily be tempted toward ‘diabolical mercy,’ which is a sense of entitlement regarding God’s mercy, whether there is true repentance or not,” Bishop Silva said.
Bishop Silva was invited to speak for the Institute of Catholic Culture by Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo, the institute’s director. Deacon Carnazzo is the nephew of Lou Carnazzo, a parishioner at St. Anthony Church in Kailua. The lecture will be given after Bishop Silva attends the fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, Maryland, Nov. 16-19.
The Institute of Catholic Culture website describes its mission as “an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization. The Institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering education programs structured upon the classical liberal arts and by offering opportunities in which authentic Catholic culture is experienced and lived.”