It is no accident that, in Roman Catholicism, among those over forty years of age, conservatives and liberals are equally obsessed with the pre-Vatican II church for there has been an equal failure on both sides to grieve that church and to let it go. On the other hand, I can accept the paschal mystery as it applies to the God and church of my youth. I can look at the church that gave me the faith, recognize that it (like my own youth) has died, grieve its passing, let it bless me, let it go, and then receive the spirit for the church within which I am actually living. In biblical terms, what
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