Go Out to All the World

Go Out to All the World is the title of a talk, given by Fr. Robin Ryan on the occasion of the Convocation of Religious in the Diocese of Phoenix on April 24-26, 2009.

In his final address to about 100 women religious of the Diocese, Fr. Robin Ryan speaks about the call to communion, referring to the second chapter of Vita Consecrata, where Pope John Paul II discusses religious life as a “sign of communion”. Men and women religious are in a particular way called to give witness to the experience of communion with the triune God and with one another. Robin describes the challenges of this calling in a world – and a Church - that has become increasingly divided, in the next section “The Pain of Polarization”. “First of all, it seems that in a world marked by painful divisions, we are called to witness to the possibility of communion in our life together”, he concludes. To develop a “spirituality of dialogue”, he recounts the eight principles for dialogue enumerated by the Catholic Common Ground Initiative.

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