Lectors for Pentecost Sunday probably do a little more practice than usual so that they won’t trip over the names of the cities and provinces listed by Luke in Acts 2. Those names belong to the Jewish diaspora—from Rome in the West to Arabia in the East, with points both north (Pontus) and south (Libya). Traditional commentators like to contrast that geographical list with (...)
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I've just read some of the same idea conflicts in the missionary approach to native American peoples, especially in the great plains. Unfortunately we have left a mess behind and never have cleaned up after ourselves to the detriment of an entire people. Latin might be a language that makes people dead...
New evangelization needs to look especially in the inner cities where thousands, millions live in struggling poverty. They are ripe for evangelization and they are in SROs and if you have to look up what SROs are, you probably are part of the problem.