Reformation Day Revisited
Today is Reformation Day. To those of you who know that I am now a Catholic, it will be obvious to you that my view on the Reformation has “changed” somewhat. I’ve done a great deal of thinking and would like to share a few things. Jesus says in the Gospel of John on the evening before he was to suffer: “That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” Naturally, looking at the many divisions within Christianity, this is not fully realized. Many would say that we are in fact one, spiritually speaking, but in light of the incarnational nature of Jesus Christ, of which all who are baptised are members of his body, this calls for a visible and an