In a recent address in Dublin, the Cardinal Archbishop of Marseille argued that mission should free the Church from a preoccupation with its own survival, opening it to the unknowable breadth and depth of God’s work.

There is often an opposition between Christians who support dialogue and Christians who privilege mission. One group is suspicious of relativism, the other of proselytising. In my experience in Marseille, working for many years in interreligious dialogue, I have learnt that a deepening of theology allows one to surpass this sterile opposition.

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