I Must be Talking to Myself: Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church since Vatican II

Bestselling author Mark Patrick Hederman traces the history of dialogue in the Roman Catholic church since its introduction in the 1960s by Pope John XXIII. Providing a philosophical analysis of this idea in Martin Buber, he compares the uses made of it in Catholicism using that role model. He also suggests that we have only begun to understand the implications of this reality in our religious lives; that it was the Holy Spirit who must have inserted the idea into an otherwise unlikely constituency; that Christianity in the twenty-first century - which is becoming a minority interest - had better take this notion of Dialogue fully on board if it is to survive and to accomplish the unity which was the unambiguous precept of its founder.