As the Church seeks to renew herself for the twenty-first century, crucial missionary zeal cries out to be ignited
Who am I to tell Roman Catholics in Europe where the Spirit may be taking them? I am, after all, a Protestant. Even worse, I am a Methodist now disguised as an Episcopalian. Perhaps even more problematic, I am an American. I am, however, a Protestant who has been deeply shaped by Catholics. Teaching for 14 years at the University of Notre Dame cannot help but leave a mark on you. Protestants are, for Catholics, canaries in the coal mine. We can be your experimental subjects, through which you learn not to make our mistakes. Catholicism had one clear lesson for many of us: Church matters. One of my central theological tasks has been to recover the Church as central for C
05 November 2015, The Tablet
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