Looking back, looking forward, at the close of the Colloquium
I am pleased, not just to have been invited to speak at the conclusion of this Colloquium, but above all that it is taking place. One of the speakers concluded his remarks asking whether this gathering could have happened at all before the Second Vatican Council, the implication being that it could not. I would add to such an Anglican assumption, this time almost with a touch of Catholic infallibility, that it certainly could not have taken place here in Trinity College Dublin!
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Diarmuid Martin
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin