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I understand that you are disagreeing with the Catholic Church official teaching and a bishop with a doctorate in philosophical theology in biblical teaching and a wealth of experience as a pastor in in teaching people and bringing them to conversion and into the faith.

Your understanding is mistaken.

It's not up to you to determine who's disagreeing with your false ideas of what the Catholic Church teaches. Your fixation on "education" and "doctorates" is absurd.

Archbishop Milingo and Cardinals Bernadin, O'Brien, Mahony, Wuerl, Dolan, Maradiaga, Kasper, Marx all fall into your little niche of "wealth of experience".

well bro. ebb thanks. i think i was trying to focus on the statement in the article (which is puzzling to me given what i know about Catholicism) and certainly not the “official teaching of the Catholic Church” which i’m not prepared in this instance to disagree with in any case. i mean. it’s a quote. i don’t even know if it’s a true quote from the bishop in question.

but in light of the history of heroic and very early Catholic missions and monastic missionaries (leaving aside the political/colonial side of it) in say N. America and China, i don’t see much of a disagreement at least in practice between true Christians of all stripes about the need for vigorous attempts, under the guidence of the Holy Spirit, to seek out and *convert,* or as i understand the word in the Bible—to turn away from Satan, to turn to the living God—the unbelievers in all lands.

i mean that is the gist of the great commission, isn’t it? it’s what God wants us in the Body to work at, be involved in, support, right?