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It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.