The task of the Church is to make it so that “faith ‘becomes culture,’ able to illuminate and profoundly inspire the ethos of peoples, giving them that spirit and those essential values without which every reality, every institution risks becoming inhuman, and therefore useless.” – Cardinal Poupard, found here.

The statement relates well to my last post. The Church is commissioned to not only integrate faith with culture, but as his Eminence says, to make faith become culture. It reminds me of something St. Francis reminded his brothers often: “It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.” Our living our faith out in a culture is of no use unless living our faith becomes culture. We are called to conversion and transformation – not only of ourselves, but of the whole world.

Aannd…because I’m so convicted of this, I am attracted to the Pauline mission.