Conversing in charity

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has set this rather “interesting” year as the Year of Interreligious Dialogue. In decades past, we prayed that the “separated brethren” would return to the true fold. “O bring them back, Good Shepherd of the Sheep…,” went one of the pious songs popular at the time.

There is a problem of course when the sheep whose return you ardently wish for think that it is you who have gone astray and need to return from your meandering, back to “ang dating daan.”