Ping
Card. Zen is one of the (very few) good guys.
In the Gospels, The great Commission was Christ’s final, and firm Directive. He didn’t frame it in the language of the optional. If one is in Christ, if one is a follower of Christ, if one is truly His, then one is evangelizing as there is opportunity to do so.
Sadly, throughout all Christendom, actually executing on Jesus’ Great Commission is seen as a duty relegated to the clergy; to Pastors, Priests, and others who have been called into vocational ministry. This is decidedly NOT the sense in which the Commission was given, but the discrepancy is not rightly laid at the feet of God, as if He had “forgotten to make His Church” live it out. I can assure any doubters that He has not forgotten any such thing. It is WE who have — not “forgotten,” but rather hideously NEGLECTED, if not shunned or even spurned Christ’s mandate.
The good Cardinal is right to have laid his finger on exactly the glaring issue, but let not The Almighty be called into question on account of His Bride’s epidemic dereliction of her assigned duty.