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1/“Whatever changes the people had wanted from the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council were, it seemed, formless, silent, lost in the bustle of a busy church frozen in a medieval mind. Instead, after 400 years without a council of reform, > ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-vo…
2/“the kinds of changes the people had expected from this council lay yet in Rome, drying in wet ink there and largely ignored here.”
3/“Oh, a few churches redesigned their confession boxes and a few more took down the altar rails, but really, other than that and the move to the vernacular in all liturgical events — nothing much did happen. Most of the changes were window dressing.”
1/ It came to me very clearly while writing about the #consistentethic and #Catholics this morning.
The consistent ethic, on one view, sought to join what we might call 'sexual morality' to 'social morality,' our concern abt #abortion to other issues.
The consistent ethic, on one view, sought to join what we might call 'sexual morality' to 'social morality,' our concern abt #abortion to other issues.
2/ Bernardin hoped a call for consistency would bring together these strands of what the #CatholicChurch teaches us.
The divisions that would thwart him already existed in 1983 when he proposed the consistent ethic. But there would be other problems.
The divisions that would thwart him already existed in 1983 when he proposed the consistent ethic. But there would be other problems.
THE BIRTH OF SOURCES CHRÉTIENNES AND THE RETURN TO THE FATHERS bit.ly/2PsOgEN
Jean Daniélou introduced Henri de Lubac to the Russian Orthodox diaspora. De Lubac then regurgitated their garbage. 
Russian Orthodox and the Institut Saint-Serge in Paris had a "profound influence" on Jean Daniélou. Without this influence Daniélou, "would certainly have lost his faith."
#CeJourLà | Le Concile #VaticanII s'ouvrait il y a 60 ans.
Revenons sur cet événement majeur de l'histoire du catholicisme au XXème siècle, en soulignant au passage, l'apport 🇫🇷 au Concile.
Un #thread à dérouler 👇
[5Fi294. Évêques à Saint-Louis des Français (1962)]
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Revenons sur cet événement majeur de l'histoire du catholicisme au XXème siècle, en soulignant au passage, l'apport 🇫🇷 au Concile.
Un #thread à dérouler 👇
[5Fi294. Évêques à Saint-Louis des Français (1962)]
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Annoncé en janvier 1959, le concile œcuménique Vatican II est ouvert par le pape Jean XXIII, le 11 octobre 1962, et se termine sous le pontificat de Paul VI, le 8 décembre 1965.
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Durant 4 années, les évêques du monde entier sont réunis au Vatican, pour réfléchir à la place et au message de l'Église dans la société contemporaine.
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John O’Malley SJ on the shifts of #VaticanII:
from commands to invitations,
from laws to ideals,
from threats to persuasion,
from coercion to conscience
John O’Malley SJ on the shifts of #VaticanII:
from commands to invitations,
from laws to ideals,
from threats to persuasion,
from coercion to conscience
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from monologue to dialogue,
from ruling to serving,
from withdrawn to integrated,
from vertical and top-down to horizontal,
from exclusion to inclusion
from monologue to dialogue,
from ruling to serving,
from withdrawn to integrated,
from vertical and top-down to horizontal,
from exclusion to inclusion
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from hostility to friendship,
from static to changing,
from passive acceptance to active engagement,
from prescriptive to principled,
from defined to open-ended
from hostility to friendship,
from static to changing,
from passive acceptance to active engagement,
from prescriptive to principled,
from defined to open-ended
Reform Jew Leo Baeck wrote preface to German edition of Aimé Pallière’s memoirs and Louise Waterman Wise (wife of Rabbi Stephen Wise) translated the memoirs into English. Rabbi Stephen Wise brought Pallière to United States where he toured from city to city preaching noahide laws
“Emanuele’s outreach to Henry Morgenthau, Sr., a financier and prominent philanthropist of the American Jewish community, to solicit funding for a translation into English certainly bespoke his desire to see his father’s [Elie Benamozegh] work more widely circulated.”
The Low Countries were notorious for their heretics. Rome distrusted them, even found Thomas à Kempis suspicious. - Now, why would the masonic Free University of Brussels devote 2 volumes to the Precursors of the Reformation to those heretics (Th. à Kempis excluded)???
One of the leading figures of French #islamologie in modern times was Louis Massignon (1883-1962) chair at the Collège de France on #Islam and whose name is forever associated with the study of Sufism and an #empathetic study of #Islam 1/
In fact his turn to faith before WW1 followed a trip to #Iraq in 1907 and encounter with Muslim hospitality and spirituality reawakened his #Catholicism along with the #intercessionary friendship of Joris-Karl Huysmans (1838-1907) and the hermit Charles de Foucauld (1848-1916) 2/
After his own doubt, De Foucauld became a Trappist monk living in Morocco, Syria and then in the Algerian Sahara with the Tuareg when he was martyred in 1916 and is currently in the process of being canonised by Pope Francis vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit… 2a/
My former student Minlib Dallh, a #Dominican from #BurkinaFaso wrote an excellent dissertation on his fellow friar Serge de Beaureceuil and his mystical encounter over the ages with #Hanbali #Sufi of Herat Khwaja ‘Abdullah Ansari (d. 1089) 1/
This work was published a few years ago and stands in that excellent #Dominican tradition of theological and mystical engagement in fellowship with Islam and Muslims sunypress.edu/p-6431-the-suf… 2/
De Beaureceuil (1917-2005) had trained at the Dominican seminary at Saulchoir in Belgium (established in 1904) with major #Catholic thinkers such as Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895-1990) a significant influence on #VaticanII’s theology of religions 3/
