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Article: To reform church, embrace democracy.(James Carroll address)(Cover Story)(Transcript)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 15, 2002
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The following address, "Enhancing Democracy: the Key to Religious Reform," was presented by author James Carroll Nov. 2 at the annual Call to Action conference in Milwaukee. The speech was adapted from his recently published book, Toward A New Catholic Church: The Promise of Reform.
In the last 13 months, we Americans have discovered with something approaching astonishment the wild diversity of religious and spiritual impulses that has come to mark not only the planet, but our own nation. "Today," as the great Catholic theologian Karl Rahner put it, "everyone is the next-door neighbor and spiritual neighbor of everyone else in the world." And the organizers of ...