Carl Anderson: ‘The Christian heritage of the West cannot be preserved by looking backward’

Carl Anderson: ‘The Christian heritage of the West cannot be preserved by looking backward’. Carl Anderson, pictured at the Angelicum in Rome on March 17, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Rome Newsroom, Mar 17, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The Christian heritage of the West cannot be preserved by looking backward, but only by looking forward and building “an authentic culture of Christian witness,” the former head of the Knights of Columbus said on Thursday in a lecture in Rome. “The Church does indeed hold within herself the future of the world and that future depends in so many ways on the degree to whi…