Pontifications has reprinted Convert Provocateurs, an article by Fr Addison H. Hart that originally appeared in the September 2000 issue of Touchstone magazine.

It’s a great read and I highly recommend it.

After reading it you will be amazed reading some of the comments. Amazed and sad really, because in short order some people digress into the typical, yes, but argument. Yes, but didn’t I mention that we belong to/have the only true Church. Yes, you’re close, but you don’t have the fullness of “the Church”.

Fr. Hart speaks a quasi-prophetic message about our eschatological times. He discusses our need to work together, faith, hope, charity… In conclusion he states:

So, in place of polemicism, let us witness to a better way: humility at all times about each of our own Traditions, charity towards one another now in all our dealings (even in our theological exchanges), and hope for a future that—”like it or not—”will put all things in proper perspective and that we will inevitably share.

We (and yes, I’m mindful of my own sinfulness and lack of charity) will have a lot to answer for.

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