Beth Haile has a post up at CatholicMoralTheology.com about the recent meeting of the Catholic Conversation Project. One of the benefits of this meeting is that I get to meet people like Beth with whom I have corresponded before, but never met in person. As she notes, it is a time not only to meet each other, but we celebrate the Eucharist together. There, in the Sacrament, in the Scriptures, and in the Creed, we are reminded that what binds us together as Catholics is something way, way deeper than whatever separates us as thinkers.
Haile's comments - in their precision and thoughtfulness - show why I have such confidence in these young theologians. They are not afraid to admit they are still working through issues, and that they don't have all the answers, but they also evidence the fact that we Catholics do have The Answer, the encounter with the Crucified Who Lives.
