Every diocese has some parishes, religious communities, and Catholic high schools, colleges, or universities involved with the Church in Latin America. A recently published book and video entitled Sharing Faith Across the Hemisphere tell the remarkable story about this relationship. Both can be found in Catholic bookstores. It may well be that the greatest sin against life is indifference. Each of us is called by Christ to be in relationship and ultimately that relationship and call leads us to the Hill of the Goats.
Any detour appears more attractive, but the journey of faith always ends on a hill.
Ronan, executive director of the NCCB Secretariat for Latin America, is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and served in the St. James Society as a missionary in Guayaquial, Ecuador from 1988-1994.