If both Protestant and Catholic sides have been diminished from a sixteenth-century division, which side should we join today? Part of the answer results, of course, from which side we think was initially more to blame. But that is not all that is important! The other part of the answer will concern which side we think is best positioned to move forward, to make progress, to seek to heal divisions—or, short of that, to live most peaceably and fruitfully amid divisions.

