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| Matthew 13:28-30 |
At the risk of thoroughly boring readers, I'd like to revisit my recent discussion of Peter Steinfels's Commonweal essay re: the bishops and religious liberty. I'd like to revisit it for one quite specific reason: as discussion about Catholic identity continues (and sharpens) in American Catholicism during the current national election cycle, we would spectacularly miss the point of this discussion and of the bishops' religious liberty initiative if we failed to see that the Catholic identity discussion is unfolding against a very particular backdrop of political and cultural interchange.
