By Denise M. Burke, Esq.
Like so many, I am praying, reflecting, and trying to come to terms with the results of last week's election. As a Catholic and a senior attorney with a national pro-life group, I certainly see many challenges and difficulties on the horizon.
George Weigel, of whom I am a huge fan, has published an article at First Things laying out what he views as the impending "crisis" -- both in terms of a "grave threat" and a "great moment of opportunity" -- for the American Catholic Church.
I wholeheartedly agree with his conclusion:
"As for the opportunity embedded in this crisis, it is nothing less than to be the Church of the New Evangelization, full-throttle. Shallow, tribal, institutional-maintenance Catholicism is utterly incapable of meeting the challenges that will now come at the Catholic Church from the most aggressively secular administration in American history. Only a robustly, unapologetically evangelical Catholicism, winsomely proposing and nobly living the truths about the human condition the Church teaches, will see us through the next four years.
Radically converted Christian disciples, not one-hour-a-week Catholics whipsawed by an ever more toxic culture, are what this hour of crisis, in both senses of the term, demands."
You can read the remainder of the article at The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration.
Like so many, I am praying, reflecting, and trying to come to terms with the results of last week's election. As a Catholic and a senior attorney with a national pro-life group, I certainly see many challenges and difficulties on the horizon.
George Weigel, of whom I am a huge fan, has published an article at First Things laying out what he views as the impending "crisis" -- both in terms of a "grave threat" and a "great moment of opportunity" -- for the American Catholic Church.
I wholeheartedly agree with his conclusion:
"As for the opportunity embedded in this crisis, it is nothing less than to be the Church of the New Evangelization, full-throttle. Shallow, tribal, institutional-maintenance Catholicism is utterly incapable of meeting the challenges that will now come at the Catholic Church from the most aggressively secular administration in American history. Only a robustly, unapologetically evangelical Catholicism, winsomely proposing and nobly living the truths about the human condition the Church teaches, will see us through the next four years.
Radically converted Christian disciples, not one-hour-a-week Catholics whipsawed by an ever more toxic culture, are what this hour of crisis, in both senses of the term, demands."
You can read the remainder of the article at The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration.
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