Reverend Richard John Neuhaus is shaping America?

[Swede]

The offense that Neuhaus's political theology gives to American
pluralism and civility is no less great. Since 1984, he has maintained
that "only a transcendent, a religious, vision can turn this society
from disaster and toward the fulfillment of its destiny" as a "sacred
enterprise." Since 1987, he has further stipulated that this vision
must be supplied by the Roman Catholic Church. The legitimacy of this
ideological project--its potential to unify rather than to polarize
the nation--stands or falls on its ability to avoid the social dynamic
that Neuhaus himself once identified with Protestant evangelicalism.
The Moral Majority was incapable of providing the nation with a
unifying religious ideology, he argued in The Naked Public Square,
because non-evangelical Americans would inevitably view the attempt as
one group's illegitimate effort to impose its private theological
convictions on the nation as a whole. Conservative Protestants thus
negated their claim to speak for the whole of society in the very act
of presuming to do so.


http://sdweiner.home.texas.net/d/archive/culture/06/0603_Richard_J_Neuhaus_new_religious_populism.htm

[patrice]

1. The only true church is a church with no walls.

no cell walls, no temple walls, no house walls, no business walls, no gender walls, no cultural walls, no theological walls, no semantic walls, no institutional walls, no economic walls, no emotional walls, no cognitive walls, no generational walls, no political walls, no ethnic walls, no racial walls . . .