Matt Malone challenges readers to reject the political terms ;liberal; and ;conservative; in referring to the church and instead to give testimony to a message that transcends pure politics a Gospel message spread by its sole leader, Jesus.
Faced with an increasingly secularized and worldly population, how can one find his/her place in society but also in a church where individualism and contemporary tribalism are tightly bound together? This incisive essay shows us that it is neither healthy nor effective for us to deck ourselves out in ideological labels.Matt Malone, SJ, Matt Malone SJ