So there I was among 800 or so believers at the Center for Evangelization at St. Paul Inside the Walls, what was once the Bayley-Ellard School in Madison. Evangelization. I know what that means, but I was confused. The hypothetical in this mock trial was carefully crafted: a will dispute between siblings, in which the bequest was to be determined by whether one party could prove the existence of God. The set-up was enticing: a program offering 2.5 hours of CLE and four well-known trial attorneys playing themselves: Mike Critchley, Timothy Donohue, Kathleen Murphy and Thomas Scrivo. Might even learn something.
Call me a skeptic, but I expected it would be preordained that the winner would be on the side of the angels. Then the organizer, Father Geno Sylva, a well-spoken, young, enthusiastic priest, introduced the event by quoting Sir Francis Bacon, C.S. Lewis and Pope Benedict about the importance of listening to those who might not share your beliefs. OK, I figured, as the secular Jewish guy in the second row, he was talking to me.
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