Back in August of 1969 a Conference on Liturgy and Worship was held in the city of Milwaukee.  Several hundred delegates from churches all across the country were in attendance.  At a set time in the program the participants were given an unusual assignment.  They were asked to go out singly into the streets of the host city, look for signs of hope, and then report back.  As far as I know, they are still out!  (I imagine that they came back, but the news report I read about the conference failed to say so.) At any rate, I wonder what signs of hope they found in Milwaukee in 1969?  That was about the time when the peaceful civil rights demonstrations led by Father James Groppi were beginning to come to an end, or turn violent.  Father Groppi left the Church soon afterward in disillusionment…