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Religion and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

1. Outside the Confines Within the context of reflection on interreligious dialog and the new evangelization, the assigned topic, “Religion and Christian Life: Religion and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit”, piques the theological imagination. The mind turns with a certain litheness of spirit to a theme that, over the past fifty years, has both animated theologians and appeared in authoritative Church documents. I refer to the claim that the Holy Spirit works “outside of the visible confines of the Mystical Body”. Lumen gentium 16, though it makes no explicit mention of the Holy Spirit, sparks thinking along these lines. Gaudium et spes 22 takes up the “Outside” theme, though with specific reference to the Holy Spirit: “For, since Christ died for all men (see Rom. 8:32), and since the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known only to God offers to every man the possibility of being associated with [the] paschal mystery”. So also Ad Gentes 15, with its reference to “the Holy Spirit, who calls all men to Christ by the seeds of the Lord and by the preaching of the Gospel”. Thus run several significant texts from the documents of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). In 1997, the Interreligious Dialogue Commission of the Central Committee for the Year 2000 published a short report on the “Outside” theme titled, “Presence and Actions of the Holy Spirit in the World and in Other Religions”. The author introduces his essay with these words: “The Christian community lives in the firm be-