Posted on 12/18/2008 10:24:19 AM PST by GonzoII
O felix culpa. It was a happy mistake that led to my meeting Father Avery Dulles. I had written a book review for the National Catholic Register in the fall of 1999 and had incorrectly identified some misbehaving priest as a Jesuit. Father Dulles, always alert to unjustified attacks upon the Society of Jesus...
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
“In 1977 principal progressivist theologians from around the world met for a conference at the University of Notre Dame, near Chicago, to discuss the future of the Church.
Two years later, Fr. Giuseppe Alberigo, a known Italian historian, decided to select the most radical talks of that meeting and present them in a book for the Italian public. So, in 1979 the book Verso la Chiesa del Terzo Millennio [Towards the Church of the Third Millennium] came to light (Brescia:Queriniana, 1979, 197 pp).
Among the authors selected by Alberigo were Schillebeeckx, Kung, Metz, and Dulles. Yes, the today “moderate” Cardinal Avery Dulles was at that time among the well-known radical progressivists...
What did Dulles defend? He asserted that the time to unite religions by means of conversion is over. The “Church” of the future, according to him, would be a federation of the existent confessions. Each one should transform itself somewhat in order to merge with the ensemble, without renouncing its characteristic doctrines. Dulles called this ensemble the “unam sanctam” [the one and holy]. We call it Pan-Religion. It is the same dream of Pan-Religion that Freemasonry and other secret forces have desired for centuries.”
http://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_005_Dulles_Millennium.htm
THIS is Avery Dulles. Requiescant is pace.
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