DAWN in The Morning

A journalist for Belgian newspaper De Morgen (The Morning) called me for a story on DAWN and new expressions of church. He had visited the World Youth Days in Cologne, and guessed there would be a big gap between what young people experienced there and the reality of the church back in Belgium. He said several bishops had expressed their concern that they would not be able to 'keep the fire going' after the WYD. I replied that the issue is not to bind young people to the church, but to release them to follow Christ and find their own expressions of church. Perhaps there could be a 'new DAWN' for the Catholics?