Overheard at the Lambeth Conference: an intriguing analogy between certain trends in Christianity and the deadly brain diseases Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, given at an address by Cardinal Ivan Dias, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, and a senior member of the Roman Catholic Church's Vatican staff.
from BBC news:
Cardinal Dias was highlighting the need for Christians to stick together to cope with the "moral confusion" of a world in which people made up their own values to suit the moment and in which Christian values were being driven from the public arena.
from BBC news:
Cardinal Dias was highlighting the need for Christians to stick together to cope with the "moral confusion" of a world in which people made up their own values to suit the moment and in which Christian values were being driven from the public arena.
He said the "thrust for evangelisation...animates both the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church".
However, warned the Cardinal, "when diversity degenerated into division", it compromised the effort to spread the message.
"Much is spoken today of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's," he said.
"By analogy, their symptoms can, at times, be found even in our own Christian communities. For example when we live myopically in the fleeting present, oblivious to our past heritage and apostolic traditions, we could well be suffering from spiritual Alzheimer's.
"By analogy, their symptoms can, at times, be found even in our own Christian communities. For example when we live myopically in the fleeting present, oblivious to our past heritage and apostolic traditions, we could well be suffering from spiritual Alzheimer's.
"And when we behave in a disorderly manner, going whimsically on our own way without any coordination with the head or the other members of our community, it could be ecclesial (churchlike) Parkinson's."
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