George Weigel...

...American writer, spoke to The Keys, the Catholic Writers' Guild, yesterday at St Mary Moorfields.  Guild meetings start with Mass, then drinks and chat in the crypt, followed by dinner. George Weigel's talk was excellent -  rich in history, well argued, faith-filled, stimulating. He makes a good case for the current and coming era in the Church to be that of Evangelical Catholicism, a Church on mission, calling men and women to be disciples of Christ: we are not living in times where anyone can soak up Christianity from the surrounding culture or from a family tradition that does not need to offer explicit teaching. It's a vision of the Church offered by St John Paul and, perhaps even more strongly, by Benedict XVI who spoke so powerfully about the grim "dictatorship of relativism" under which we are already starting to labour...and it chimes with Pope Francis' repeated calls to evangelise, teach, and serve...