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Isabella R. Moyer | Oct. 10, 2013

Bloggers muse and ponder on the issues of the day. We rant and rave. We dream and vision. The challenge comes when someone asks us, “So? What should we do about it?”

My last NCR blog post was titled, “Pope Francis asks us to be the reform we want to see.” As I was writing, I was increasingly aware that I was speaking in generalities. Paragraphs were filled with nice-sounding words that painted a utopian picture and with platitudes that pointed to some ephemeral “what could be” if we only tried to “be the reform we want to see.”

A kind reader sent me an email asking for more. He liked the tone of the post but wondered about the practicalities of reform. How do we make it come about? For example, what if we are the…