I was intrigued last week by a little story which many readers will have passed by without a second glance, but which is probably worth looking at again: it appeared under the headline “English bishop criticises New Evangelisation council”.
Now, the creation of a new Vatican dicastery is not to the average man or woman in the pew an earth-shaking event. And according to Bishop Kieran Conry, speaking in a BBC interview, the new council is superfluous, and the analysis on which it is based is totally wrong: “He was not convinced,” reported the Herald, “by the notion that secularisation lies at the heart of the Church’s decline in Europe.”
