In an interview published in The Christian Century (May 15, 2007), David Burrell, C.S.C., responds to a question about this interest in ecumenism and interreligious dialog as follows:

Christians need one another desperately, though not to erase our differences; these can be helpful, and God is beyond conceptualization anyway. But we need strength to walk in a world that marginalizes us. If this world doesn't marginalize us, this world is even worse. Late capitalism eats out Christianity's guts from the inside. It's far more dangerous to the faith than Marxism, which just tried to dominate it.

I find this remarkable on two counts: The reminder that we shouldn't get overwrought about theological differences because "God is beyond conceptualization anyway"; and the observation about capitalism.

The image of having our guts eaten out from the inside is terrifying. The truth and value of capitalism are foundational components of the socially constructed reality we inhabit, but in Burrell's view it is dangerously corrrosive. Christian community, indeed ecumenical Christian community, is an important preventative to being eaten up by it.