Posted on 10/19/2022 2:46:40 PM PDT by ebb tide
Last week, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by hosting a wonderful conference, "Vatican II and Catholic Higher Education: Leading Forward." The school, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary next year, was a fruit of the council, the first Catholic university under lay leadership in the country.
The event was part of a growing body of evidence that a significant minority of U.S. Catholic theologians are reengaging with Vatican II, and ecclesiology more generally, in important ways.
Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University opened the proceedings and set the frame for the entire conference with a historical and theological reflection on the reception of Vatican II in Catholic higher education in the United States. Unsurprisingly, he invited the participants to honest self-criticism of their guild as well as pointing a way forward.
Vatican II "assumed a robust relationship between theology and academia," Faggioli said. "The new literary genre of Vatican II texts, that is, non-legislative but narrative, required a sustained effort of cultural mediation between magisterium, the church and the world that was different from one of the most similar predecessors of Vatican II, the Council of Trent four centuries before."
Alas, in the United States, the relationship took a torpedo when Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncronline.org ...
Ping
It's an independent newspaper (obviously) not under the control of any part of the church hierarchy. And liberal to -- and beyond -- the point of heresy.
LIES:
"...claims put forward by Yale theologian Willie James Jennings, who argues the Christian theological tradition, at least in its Aristotelian-Thomist iterations, has been thoroughly enmeshed with racism and colonialism."
PROGRESSIVISM:
"Finally, at the council, the idea that our Catholic understanding of tradition is of a living tradition, not a mere textual one, is affirmed, and in ways distinct from that of Trent."
JIBBERISH:
"Handing it on entails "both a remembering and a forgetting, and an attempt to remember what has not just been forgotten, but dis-membered."
But Sacred Heart University is a private, but Catholic, university.
The future of the Church is "secure" in their hands.
When is Notre Dame going to change its name to Une Dame?
What a bunch of fried faggioli (beans)! I do not know recognize any of what is being reported as being Catholic. It is little more than Humanism which is HERETICAL.
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