The ExCel Conference Centre near Canary Wharf in the East End of London was recently the location for two major conferences: the 2025 ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) event, and a Word on Fire conference […]
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Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron speaks June 11, 2019, on the first day of the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)The ExCel Conference Centre near Canary Wharf in the East End of London was recently the location for two major conferences: the 2025 ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) event, and a Word on Fire conference on the theme of the Bible. ARC attracted some 4000 participants, Word on Fire 1600. Large numbers of Catholics attended both.
The ARC is quite a “broad church” in the sense that it attracts many species of people who are fed up with the ideologies running the world. Some are theists, some not, and among the theists there were Catholics, members of the Church of England and its affiliates, other sub-species of Christians belonging to groups formed in the sixteenth century, and there were also Jewish scholars.
