Msgr. James Shea on Evangelizing in a Post-Christian Society, Belief in the Invisible World, and Utopias

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The president of the University of Mary discusses our apostolic age, the Eucharist, and the Church’s engagement with harmful ideas.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Msgr. James Shea, president of the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, has caused much discussion in Catholic circles with the book From Christendom to Apostolic Mission (University of Mary Press), which communicates that we are living in a post-Christian age and are called to be missionaries to this new era.

In this interview with the Register on campus in April, he discussed the book’s message, the National Eucharistic Revival, and the way in which the Church engages with harmful ideas.



Tell me about this book, From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, and why you think it has resonated with many readers.

This book is a great surprise and a little bit of an embarrassment. It’s not something that I sat down and wrote. This was the result of a conversation that happened between a group of good friends over the course of several years. We love the Church, and we were thinking, “Okay, what’s happening right now in the world in which we live?”

There are some moments in human history where you can draw a bright line between everything that went before and everything that’s coming after. We find ourselves in such a time.

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