Cardinal Francis George: God makes a difference

Cardinal Francis George, the president of the U.S. Episcopal Conference, launched his new book ¨The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion and Culture¨ at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.The archbishop of Chicago, inspired by the Theology of Communion and the ecclesiology of Vatican II, expounds in his book a vision of man as a relational being, focusing on relationships within the Church and dialogue in the United States.“The book speaks about two things that sometimes are hard to speak about in the United States. Relationships that define who we are before we know that we are individuals, because we tend to think we are who we are because of personal choices. But in fact, we born related, we are reborn in Christ related before we have a consciousness of who we are. And so the book speaks about ways to bring those relationships to self-consciousness through dialogue. The second that is hard to speak about in United States, in the world of specializations, is to speak about everything, to speak about the world as God sees it.”The event was organized by the Pontifical Pastoral Institute Redemptor Hominis, the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, DC, and the Lumen Christi Institute in Chicago. Miguel Humberto Días, the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, also attended the event.

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