An article titled Widespread Spiritual Hunger Should Be Major News Story caught my eye on the editorial page of the Sunday paper. The author, Bill Tammeus, a columnist for the Kansas City Star, speculated about some journalists and some scientists who refused to see truths that are not physical. The case in point was Pope John Paul II’s visit to Mexico. Huge crowds appeared wherever he spoke. In San Juan los Lagos an estimated one million people gathered in a meadow to listen to him.
Why did these enormous crowds seek out this man? Such questions were never addressed by most news stories which covered the papal visit.
Tammeus asks: “Why are they so interested in a man who can only give them sermons, not jobs, food or shelter?”1
The prophet Zechariah confronted a similar situation. On Dece…