Grace is built on nature. Good, sound, and effective managerial practices from the secular world can be adopted to govern the greatest spiritual organization that is the Catholic Church in the world. If it is not a spiritual organization, it has no business to continue to exist. Its leaders need to be truly time-tested spiritual persons imbued with Christ’s spirit. They need to be ready and willing to be guided by the Holy Spirit. On occasion one wonders if the Church leaders at present are not, unwittingly, trying to micro-manage the workings of the Holy Spirit! The new Pope as a nominal spiritual head of the Catholic Church and his council can give general guidelines for the Church members to form their conscience and live a life according to Christ’s teachings. This system of minimal governance can only enhance the stature of the Catholic Church instead of diminishing it.
The mechanics of the elections and a minimum program on spirituality and formation of clergy and laity can be left to the Third Vatican Council. All, especially theologians, spiritual guides, and reform-minded Catholics can offer suggestions with regard to the New Catholic Church that will make every effort to work for unity of Christianity, cooperation with other religions, and, above all, unity of humanity that is in the image of God. While the chief Church center can be in the Vatican City, there can be four sub-centers in the four corners of the world. The Catholic Church, universal as it is, is ideally equipped to help model and create without interference a secular, democratic world government that will express a political unity of humanity. The business of the Catholic Church should be to help its members understand and live the message of Christ. All Christians should be enabled to have God experience.
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