“Many of us were involved in missionary activity, but at least in the West and the North, our main concern was ministering to our own, especially immigrants and new children being born,” he said. “So we opened parishes and schools like crazy and they all followed basically the same model: we have to look out for our own because sadly no one else will.”
The new Latin churches should have sought assimilation, inculturation, and integration, and if they met with resistance they should have emphasized the obligation of their immigrant congregation not to test the limits of hospitality and to discourage others from immigrating. The opportunity to assimilate, inculturate, and integrate has passed for many churches, and now their leaders are pushing for a religious form of civic nationalism that will fail.
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