Are City Folks Less Christian?
By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Are the people who live in America’s cities less Christ-like than those who live in small towns and rural areas? Michael Rossmann, a Jesuit scholastic (a member of the order, not yet ordained a priest), does not say that, not in so many words. But he comes close. Rossmann is now studying at the School of Theology and Ministry of Boston College, after teaching at Loyola High School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In his column in the September 1-8 issue of America, he writes of the lack of human interaction he finds on the streets of the urban area where he now lives. Rossmann observes that “during the course of many long walks in a…Continue Reading