Summary
Frustration with institutional inertia and self-serving clericalist policies, doubts about whether Rome is following through on its Vatican II commitment to full participation of the laity in the life of the church, concern that the pope has not consulted more fully with bishops around the world and those better attuned to local churches and their cultural and pastoral needs-plenty of issues can try one's faith. Central to Mennonite faith and self-understanding is a sense that the work of God in Jesus Christ is preeminently one of reconciling broken relationships with God, with neighbors, and even with enemies.
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You Converted to What?
At Pentecost 2004,1 made a small yet formidable step in my life of Christian discipleship. Having considered myself a "Catholic Mennonite" for years, I entered into full communion with the Roman Church and became what I think of as a "Mennonite Catholic." Catholic friends were gratified but puzzled. After all, this might not have seemed an auspicious time to join the church. The body blow of the sexualabuse scandals; a shortage of priests that has left many parishes without regular Eucharists; a gnawing generation gap between incoming priests and the generation trained in the glow of Vatican II. "Thank you for joining us," my friends' faces read. "But why now?"
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