A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at the local Knights of Columbus about the Synod of 2015. To be honest, I didn't want to give the talk; I had been asked to do it back in September and I figured it would be easy enough to discuss for 30 or 40 minutes. Certainly there was no lack of material. In fact, a key reason for my reluctance was the overwhelming amount of information: how to present it and analyze it with any sort of coherence in such a short amount of time?
I opened the talk by admitting my concerns. I then read a quote that, for various reasons, I've had on my office wall for many years:
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