Dear All, The last item of Church unity that I want to treat is, simultaneously, the first. It is the Eucharist, Holy Communion, Mass.

Dear All, Another factor in preserving the unity of the Church is a constant conversation that goes on amongst all the members. I know that that sounds untrue.

Dear All, One of the most useful tools of unity in the Catholic Church is the Sacrament of Penance. Really? Really.

I did a lot of heavy lifting last week about the foundation of the Church’s unity in the unity of the Trinity. Today, I want to talk about the multiplicity/pluralism in the Trinity – the three-ness -- as the foundation of a remarkable diversity in the Church.

I took the high road to assert that love is the root of the Church’s permanence in history. By that I did not mean eroticism or mushy sentimentalism or fuzzy ‘empathy’.