Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church

[Read by David Cochran Heath] George Weigel, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Catholic Church, presents a bold challenge to Catholics everywhere. The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the sixteenth-century counterreformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from over a century of Catholic reform; a mission-centered renewal honed by the Second Vatican Council and given compelling expression by Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. The Gospel-centered Evangelical Catholicism of the future will send all the people of the Church into mission territory every day - a territory increasingly defined in the West by spiritual boredom and aggressive secularism.