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by bcadmin | Sep 24, 2021 | Columns, Dignitatis Humanae, Features, Jean Danielou, John Courtney Murray, News, Politics, Prayer, Religious Freedom, the Enlightenment, The Past Present | 0 |
In 1965, the Church finally made peace with modern politics through Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council’s statement on religious freedom. The meaning of religious freedom and the nature of Catholic politics within a pluralist […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 2, 2020 | Already/Not Yet, Crazy cousin, Elizabeth, Jean Danielou, Jesus, Mary, News, Spiritual joy, St. John the Baptist, The Advent of Salvation | 0 |
If you had asked me a year ago which biblical figure I’d be most interested in spending a few weeks with, St. John the Baptist would have been toward the bottom of my list. It’s not just that I don’t think I could stomach his preferred diet of locusts and honey, or that self-imposed isolation in a desert isn’t my idea of a good time. It’s that John’s apparent motives for his life and actions never struck me as compelling. In the words of one of my brothers, St. John often just seemed like “Jesus’ crazy cousin” — motivated, perhaps, by some kind of unrelatable, unappealing compulsion or mania. Not exactly my idea of someone I’d want to hang out with.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Adrienne von Speyr, Books, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Communio, Features, Fr. Louis Bouyer, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac S.J, Ignatius Press, interview, Jean Danielou, Joseph Fessio S.J., Matthew Levering, News, Nicholas J. Healy, ressourcement, Thomism | 0 |
Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., are co-editors of a new book of essays from Ignatius Press that highlights the important work of several ressourcement theologians while honoring the important work done by Fr. […]
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