Catholic Common Ground Conf on Ecclesial Movements

On a jaunt that is somewhat related to our broader project of tapping into resources for the "faith-life" connect,  I spent the weekend in Chicago at the Catholic Common Ground’s Twelfth Cardinal Bernardin Conference, which focused this year on “Understanding the Ecclesial Movements and their Interaction with the Local Church in the US Today.”  It generated an incredibly rich conversation about how to foster a better connect between local church communities and the resources that the ecclesial movements and new communities offer for formation, evangelization and building lively faith communities.  BC Theologian Robert Imbelli, also present at the conference, has noted some of the key insights, “Mysticism and Method,” over at dotCommonweal.  Amy