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Article: 'Get into the van:' resisting at Fort Benning.(Canada)
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- Catholic New Times
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- January 25, 2004
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In a society sometimes better described as an economy than a culture, leaders do not lead and teachers do not teach, and the young are left alone to make sense of their lives and their place in the world. Unfortunately, the church itself has largely opted out of its traditional role of leadership.
According to Richard Rohr, Franciscan author, the important role of rites of passage has been forgotten and "we can no longer assume that elders are really elders, or that leaders and politicians have a minimal spiritual or human maturity, or that youth have been mentored into some kind of adults."
Rohr calls for a return to "liminal space", a term borrowed ...