One freezing winter day when he was a child, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley told a congregation of Catholics and Methodists Sunday afternoon, the pipes in his house burst and his father opened the phone book to find a plumber. O’Malley’s mother sang out, “Be sure you call a Catholic!” These days, O’Malley said, the split between Catholics and Protestants has been replaced with a “new polarity . . . between believer and nonbeliever,” a shift that should spur Christians to greater cooperation. Christians also share a common enemy, he added: what Pope Francis has called “the globalization of indifference” to those who are poor and suffering. “The call to unity is an imperative,” O’Malley said.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:32:28 +0000
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