Lofty rhetoric aside, why the U.S. bishops’ ‘Convocation’ mattered

[ComplineSanFran]

Lofty rhetoric aside, why the U.S. bishops’ ‘Convocation’ mattered

I have been reading John Allen’s piece on the convocation in Orlando that just ended. Did I miss the threads about it? 4 days, 3500 people, clergy, religious, laity, all discussing the state of the Church. Why hasn’t there been more discussion? Just curious.

For sure, topics with clear political relevance surfaced along the way, from immigration and the LGBTQ community to abortion and euthanasia. However, those were not the dominant notes, which were instead evangelization, mercy, formation in the faith, prayer and the sacraments, and the spiritual life.

No one thundered away from the lectern about political subjects, and during breaks and over lunches and dinners, there frankly wasn’t much buzz about them. You had a much better shot at stirring a good conversation if you asked someone about their parish than their Congressman.

In a similar vein, it was also striking how essentially uninterested most people here seemed about Church politics.

cruxnow.com/analysis/2017/07/05/lofty-rhetoric-aside-u-s-bishops-convocation-mattered/

 

[ProdigalSun]

Lofty rhetoric aside, why the U.S. bishops’ ‘Convocation’ mattered

I have been reading John Allen’s piece on the convocation in Orlando that just ended. Did I miss the threads about it? 4 days, 3500 people, clergy, religious, laity, all discussing the state of the Church. Why hasn’t there been more discussion? Just curious.

cruxnow.com/analysis/2017/07/05/lofty-rhetoric-aside-u-s-bishops-convocation-mattered/

The Convocation was more of a retreat with an emphasis on prayer and the faith than politics and news. It may very well have been discussed in Spirituality rather than news.

Was their something particularly newsworthy about the Convocation that you wished to discuss?