"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" writes a reader who picked up on an inaugural meeting at Georgetown University of a project called the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on the Common Good/Public Policy.(While We're At It)(Conference news)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May, 2008 by Neuhaus, Richard John

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" writes a reader who picked up on an inaugural meeting at Georgetown University of a project called the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on the Common Good/Public Policy. I suppose it might be referred to as ECD to distinguish it from ECT, Evangelicals and Catholics Together.

The more, the merrier, I say. The list of participants is composed of "moderate" to less than moderate proponents of a leftward political persuasion. Catholic headliners include Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, D.C.; John Carr of the bishops' conference; and John DeGioia, president of Georgetown. On the evangelical side are, inter alios, Rick Warren of The Purpose-Driven Life, Ron Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action,...

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