Where are the subjects of the Kingdom? If the Kingdom of God is fading from memory and visibility in our contemporary world, the question must be “What has become of its citizens?” In 1978 Frank Sheed wrote that we were in a spiritual coma! Apparently forty-three years have passed with little change in our condition. Our malaise might best be captured in the word repeated ad nauseam in daily parlance: “Whatever”. Intended to convey a benevolent tolerance, it instead communicates an indifference to anything or anyone outside of one’s own experience.
