NEW YORK
National Catholic Reporter
Jamie Manson | Jul. 17, 2013 NCR Today
This summer’s most anticipated event—for reform-minded Catholics, at least—kicked off last night in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Austrian priest Helmut Schüller offered the first of fifteen presentations that he will offer around the U.S. in a program called The Catholic Tipping Point: Conversations.
The event drew a notable crowd of 230 people, who braved sweltering heat and humidity to gather at Judson Memorial Church to hear Schüller discuss the “Call to Disobedience” set forth in 2011 by the Austrian Priests Initiative.
The movement, Schüller said, “was initiated out of deep sorrow for the future of parish communities.”
“As a 60-year-old parish priest, I fear that, when my time is over, I will leave my community to an uncertain future,” he said.
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