Times they are a changing(1)

From time to time we all need to look around and see where we are going. We need to do so in the Church as well as in our personal lives. At my age we will find that things have changed not once but many times and we must constantly reevaluate these changes.For the next few days I plan to share my vision of how the church in Florida has changed in thr last fifty years. I would love to get your feedback.

I said before that one can never go back, but an institution and its leaders can go backward. To my mind the community that is the Church in Central Florida has not gone backward. Its members are still active and committed to living and sharing their faith in their communities. Many priests and many parishes, despite the handcuffs of a rigid ecclesiastical bureaucracy, are doing truly wonderful things to help the poor and needy, the migrants and the homeless, to support missions abroad, to