On this day on which the Western church celebrates the ascension of Jesus, I wanted to point you to the homily Fr. Richard John Neuhaus gave on the Feast of the Ascension last year at the annual Memorial Mass for Catholic military chaplains, “Bearing Witness in a Time of War.” It is, I think, a powerful reflection on the reality and significance of the divided sovereignty to which we as Christians in this world owe allegiance. “We bear witness to what is to be, and, for those who believe, already is. The Church—her ministers and her members—is the people ahead of time.”
