Posted on 06/01/2011 7:08:18 AM PDT by marshmallow
Father Michael Scanlan looks back on a career that included an early friendship with Avery Dulles, 42 years at Franciscan University and leading the charismatic renewal.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Father Michael Scanlan’s name has become so closely linked to Steubenville, Ohio, that it’s a bit surprising to learn that he grew up in midtown Manhattan.
The Third Order Regular Franciscan has spent 42 of his 47 years as a priest at Franciscan University of Steubenville and played a large part in bringing the college back from near death.
This summer, though, Father Scanlan, 79, is retiring from his post as chancellor, a position he has held for the past 11 years. Before that, he spent 26 years as the university’s president.
An early leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal, Father Scanlan was instrumental in turning around a struggling university. During commencement exercises on May 13-14, Father Scanlan was given the title president emeritus of Franciscan University. He spoke with Register senior writer Tim Drake about his contributions to Catholic higher education.
Where are you from originally? Tell me about your family.
I grew up in midtown Manhattan. I attended boarding schools all the way through elementary and high school. I have one brother. I celebrated his wedding, and all of his children have come to Franciscan. My mother worked for a while as a secretary in the Empire State Building. My father was in imports and exports and worked out of Mexico City.
You’ve been a priest for 47 years with the Franciscan order. What led to your vocation?
It was the experience of God calling. I experienced it first while at Williams College in Massachusetts. One of my roommates was [the late owner of the New York Yankees] George Steinbrenner. I was receiving some very confusing teachings in philosophy.......
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Thank you. He is one of the heroes of the Faith, and we need to honor him.
Cardinal Avery Dulles?
Who, then, can be saved?Catholics can be saved if they believe the Word of God as taught by the Church and if they obey the commandments.
Other Christians can be saved if they submit their lives to Christ and join the community where they think he wills to be found.
Jews can be saved if they look forward in hope to the Messiah and try to ascertain whether God’s promise has been fulfilled.
Adherents of other religions can be saved if, with the help of grace, they sincerely seek God and strive to do his will.
Even atheists can be saved if they worship God under some other name and place their lives at the service of truth and justice.God’s saving grace, channeled through Christ the one Mediator, leaves no one unassisted. But that same grace brings obligations to all who receive it. They must not receive the grace of God in vain. Much will be demanded of those to whom much is given.
-- concluding paragraph (formatting mine), from the thread Who Can Be Saved? Article by Cardinal Avery Dulles
Sign me: proud parent of a Franciscan University Baron cross-country runner.
None at this time. Feel free to put words in my mouth, if you so desire.
It's posts like yours that are causing more and more threads to be made caucus threads. It's nearly impossible to have an open discussion without someone dragging the topic off to a smear. Give it a rest.
Let's let the RM's finish their coffee first, shall we?
Earlier in the day, the graduate commencement speaker, U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, from Nebraska's 1st district, thanked Father Scanlan.
Fortenberry, a 1996 graduate of Franciscan's MA theology program, said, "I was reflecting on my journey to Steubenville, and if it hadn't been for the fact that I read the book Let the Fire Fall years ago [written by Father Scanlan], this all may have never happened."
He credited Father Scanlan for helping build, "The best Catholic university in America…. where the faith illuminates the intellect and the quest for knowledge is truly alive. " At the May 13 Baccalaureate Mass, honorary degree recipient Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, praised Father Scanlan for leading Franciscan University, "during some very critical years, years during which many Catholic universities, I'm sad to say, under the pressure of an increasingly secularized society, abandoned their Catholic identity."
Father Scanlan, "with a lion's heart, held to the truth and to the integrity of this university, and we're all very deep in our gratitude to him," he said.
LOL! Why do you consider the verbatim statement written by Cardinal Dulles to be a smear? Who is it a smear upon?
Steinbrenner?
Da Boss of the Yankees? The famous baseball team?
What a cool thing.
Don't you have a modertor to be following around?
I think we’re all supposed to be shocked, SHOCKED! that Cdl. Dulles wrote, in effect, that God will decide who is saved. (I’m good with that, His being God and all. But I digress ...)
After being horrified by what Cdl. Dulles has written, we’re supposed to realize that, because Fr. Scanlan was a friend of Cdl. Dulles, his so-called achievements at Franciscan U. actually did more harm than good.
I like the Cardinal Dulles quote.
You wrote:
“LOL! Why do you consider the verbatim statement written by Cardinal Dulles to be a smear? Who is it a smear upon?”
Okay, why don’t you explain why you posted something that has nothing to do with the thread topic? Can you, Alex?
But, TC, don't you know: letting God decide stuff like who will be saved is a heresy against the Biblical doctrine of the sovereignty of God!
For God to be truly sovereign, he has to be limited to doing only the stuff Calvinists will let him do. /s
See my #14, vlad. I judge it as a smear Fail, rather like someone’s saying to me, after counting my Offspring, “I’ll bet you’re Catholic!” or calling me a redneck. Yeah, duh ...
“Why, you probably believe that’s the REAL Body and Blood of Christ!” *distressed shudder*
It is a “smear Fail”. We shouldn’t be surprised at either the smear or the fail when we note the source.
It goes without saying that people who don’t share our Faith don’t share our Faith, so I don’t see what the point is, for them, in continuing to say it.
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