The crisis in question is not the one of dwindling vocations and lay questioning of

Church teaching; but one high up in the hierarchy, with the bishops' recent pastoral letters on war and on the political economy. What ensues is a correspondingly high-level discussion, with a great deal worth thinking about. Two samples: GW: "Catholics have something that the evangelicals, I think are beginning to understand that they need, and that is a way to talk about moral norms in a pluralistic society. We call it natural-law theory; they call it general revelation." ... MN: "The bishop on Long Island said that he had a disagreement in conscience with Bill Casey. As I read the text, it wasn't a difference in conscience at all, it was a difference in political judgment about what's going on. Now to make that a matter of conscience, I think, is a bit of theological

imperialism."