Frijole Days of Obligation 2007

With our parish mission trip to Guatemala fast approaching, I noted this by Richard John Neuhaus on the upcoming meeting of the Latin American bishops and the continuing growth of evangelical and pentecostal congregations.

Frequently, Catholics who have never been catechized, on joining these communities, engage in Bible study, stop drinking, gambling, and abusing their wives, and often develop the elementary disciplines of regular work and micro-economic entrepreneurial activity. It is surely time for the Church in Latin America to candidly acknowledge its failures in evangelization, catechesis, and pastoral care; failures that result in millions of people finding in these other groups an encounter with the living Christ and a community of discipleship such as they did not know when they were nominally Catholic. Catholics, along with evangelical and Pentecostal Christians, should be listening carefully to how these questions are addressed at the meeting of CELAM in May.

At least his use of "how" assumes these questions will be addressed.