As we await the Papal Exhortation following the recent Synod on «The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith» Dr Dudley Plunkett encourages a humble realism concerning the state of British «outreach».
And if we could stick to our discipline for a few more weeks until then, he would like us to read Familiaris Consortio, the 1981 papal exhortation of St. John Paul II, our «pre-Cana,» as it were.