Cardinal Egan, God rest his soul, used to say,

when people greet you with the words, you look great,

you know that you've hit the 70s, age.

And I suppose equally, when people start having conferences

in your honor, you know that you have reached your twilight years.

Alas.

I hope that I will show, I hope that this paper

will show my gratitude to the organizers.

Excuse me. I hope that this paper will show my gratitude to the organizers.

Excuse me, I see. And so I will say no more about that until it comes in the paper.

The handout, I will stick to it.

And the bibliography is all basically how I could fit on that page.

There's a lot.

In fact, I didn't know about the book that Michael Root mentioned to heart.

But there's quite a lively conversation about this issue.

When I moved into St. Mary's Priory in New Haven in the fall of 1974 to begin graduate

studies, the Second Vatican Council had concluded just about 10 years before.

George Lindbeck, the man with whom I was to work on the theology of religions and inter-religious

dialogue, had been among the delegated observers at the council, two years as you've heard,

and had already written a book about his experience and the

implications of the Council for the future of Catholic theology in 1970.

He was fascinated by the fact that my time of formation in the Dominican order here, and

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