Journal of a Soul The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII RELIGION BOOKS
Ruddy, Christopher
Rediscovering Roncalli II is in the twilight of his pontificate, and and long life, journal alternates...
...eventually renew the church...
...It demanded the strength and humility to be conformed to Christ Inaugural Conference and his cross...
...Moreover, even their papal activi- Spring Conferences, 2000 ties are yoked...
...Could John www calvin.edu/fss May 25-27, 2000 Paul have given the council the space it needed to be truly collegial and open Commonweal 29 March 10, 2000 to unexpected developments...
...hope it is clear to you," an official told a of John Paul's pontificate...
...John Paul II has done Susan M. Felch, Director more than any other pope in modern history to be truly the bishop of Rome, a God and Evil Registration fee: $40(one) or $75(both) pastoral activity initiated in fact by John...
...have no firsthand recollection of John he asks himself...
...May we all John's gentleness was not spinelessness be blessed by the insights and perspectives that flow from this bold and innovative or a purely natural disposition, but the program...
...Rediscovering Roncalli II is in the twilight of his pontificate, and and long life, journal alternates between the inevitable reflection and politicking broad swatches of formulaic, if earnest, about what qualities the next pope should piety and moments of moving personal Journal of a Soul possess are widespread...
...Just about every imaginable barbarism of war or peace has been perpetrated in the fifty years of the Chinese occupation...
...Rosemary Ruether an easy one...
...fering...
...Journal illustrates how, despite the Craig quotes freely and extensively overwhelming influence of John Paul II Christopher Ruddy is a doctoral candidate from scores of interviews she conductin the formation of its generation, the in theology at the University of Notre Dame ed with refugees, including the Dalai substance of its Catholicism owes just and an intern at Commonweal...
...Both have Richard Otte, University of California - Santa Cruz Anna Mae Bush, been untiring advocates of the inviolable Alvin Plantinga, Notre Dame Coordinator dignity and rights of the human person...
...portune time...
...Marc H. Ellis, Director, Center for American & John Paul II (at least I find it hard to think Jewish Studies, Baylor University, P 0 Box 97308, Waco, TX 76798-7308 254-710-1510, 254-710-1571 (fax) email: American Jewish@baylor.edu of one without the other...
...John's evangelical to 1999...
...Center for American Incessant conflict between Orthodox and & Jewish Studies Marc H. Ellis, Director Catholics, and Latin and Eastern To create an important forum for discussion of religion and public life in Catholics, and uncertainty about his the United States and to create the leading center for the study of Judaism own mission caused him immense suf- and Jewish life among Christian-identified institutions of higher learning...
...One of duct of the recent synods of bishops evangelical fearlessness has been a gift the subtler shocks of Mary Craig's book suggests otherwise...
...As a warm as Pius XII was aloof, a man who sixteen-year-old, in 1898, he writes of his visited the Roman prisons, received the abjectly poor peasant family: "This is archbishop of Canterbury, and wel- what is hardest for me to bear, to think comed Jewish visitors to the Vatican that in the case of my dear ones, suffering with the greeting, "I am your brother...
...I human person that has been a hallmark fruit in Vatican II and in John Paul II...
...Both are transparently evangelical-John in his gentleness, and John Paul II in his fearless- SEMINARS IN CHRISTIAN SCHOLARSHIP ness...
...The Holy Spirit you do of seeing the sun rise from the sage to the council...
...Who John was still astonishing to contemplate how this and what the big deal about him is re- moderate, deeply traditional man sinmain questions for many Catholics my gle-handedly brought about Vatican II, age...
...Is he afraid of the inbeen formed in large part by John Paul evitable upheavals reform will bring...
...Even the language from crying out...
...John Paul II's dition has scarcely improved...
...That puri- Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2000 ty of intent will also remind the reader of For information contact: Dr...
...The early entries reThe Autobiography of Pope after nearly four decades during which veal Angelo Roncalli, a young Italian John XXIII John has remained the touchstone for lib- seminarian of great devotion and scrupuhuage/Dorrbleday, $14.95, 453 pp...
...Is not the sword someor Vatican II...
...Or, in the face of to the church, one to which youth es- is that the atrocities she details continue relentless challenges to human dignity pecially have responded...
...Published originally in 1965, and embroidered with the spiritual vocabuFor virtually all who re- written intermittently over John's active lary of the time ("the honey and heavenP member him, he is revered ly nectar of your consolations"), but there as a good and holy man who was as is flesh and blood under the filigree...
...Since A Cry for Tibet Mary Craig a system for those who might try to speak the occupation, however, the Chinese a last word of defiance: Condemned pris- government has taken pains to rewrite Counterpoint...
...human rights...
...Children were forced to Tibet had existed for nearly two thouTears of Blood shoot their parents, disciples their reli- sand years as a sovereign state, only gious teachers...
...Richard Mouw, President, Fuller Seminary fruit of suffering endured "without let- "The Center will make a unique contribution to interreligious and cultural ting anyone even know it [was] there...
...My Catholic existence has times necessary...
...A father and daughter are forced to have sex...
...Their papacies, I submit, e-mail: abush@calvin.edu Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Syracuse University are not as far apart as some think-or fax: 616-957-6682 wish...
...Featured speakers: ph 616-957-8558 Hilary Putnam, Harvard University And, yet, the two men remain quite Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University website: different in their simplicity...
...Challenges of Faith and Public Policy in the 21st Century...
...gives both...
...Time will re- in an unbroken line from 1950 through and life, could John have sustained the veal the fruit it bears...
...Lama...
...His beatification is sched- I believe the answer can be found in uled for later this Jubilee year, John Paul Bulgaria, of all places...
...No resigned of all that is good in Catholicism, a re- mysticism of suffering here, but rather minder of that "one, brief, shining mo- intimations of his landmark social enment" when undreamed-of renewal cyclicals Mater et magistra and Pacem in was possible and a "new Pentecost" terris and their clarion support of basic seemed on the horizon...
...Certainly the People's Republic prophetic, unyielding defense of the gentleness has already born abundant (PRC) has no intention of leaving...
...has been deliberately altered: "Tibetan Emmy Chang And after nearly fifty years of Com- history [has] been reduced to a matter munist occupation, the Tibetans' con- of fairy tales and legends, the very word here has been no shortage, in our century, of genocidal regimes that slaughter people by the millions...
...Tears of Blood is an account of what has happened and is happening in Tibet, but its landscape could have come straight out of Dante or Hieronymus Bosch...
...November 1-3, 2000 And this love, born of suffering, cre- Plenary Speakers: Richard Rubenstein, Mahmoud Ayoub, ated in Roncalli an extraordinary evan- Rosemary Radford Ruether, Lawrence Carter & Ram Cnaan gelical simplicity, which allowed him to Call for Papers: Challenges for Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the distill Christianity to its essentials and 21st Century...
...The con- as much to John XXIII...
...Methods of execution include "crucifixion, dismemberment, vivisection, beheading, burying, burning and scalding alive, Commonweal 30 March 10, 2000...
...But for those under forty-five, John is Roncalli s later years as papal nuncio at best a faint memory obscured by the in Paris and cardinal patriarch of Venice conflicted Paul VI and overwhelmed by (1945-58) reveal a man of deep humanthe titanic John Paul II...
...Simply put, John, and Journal of a Soul, remind us- crowd of Tibetans after a failed uprisone can scarcely imagine John con- particularly those younger-that bold- ing in Lhasa, "that you stand as much fronting Sandinista hecklers, or John ness need not exclude gentleness, nor chance of getting your independence as Paul II delivering John's opening mes- gentleness boldness...
...More pointedly, and spiritual clarity...
...oners often have their vocal cords sev- the past, insisting that Tibet has always ered before execution, to prevent them been a part of China...
...May 23-25, 2000 Seminars in Christian Both have been deeply committed to Scholarship Christian unity, and John Paul II has ex- Realism and Antirealism Calvin College 3201 Burton Street SE tended this to interaction with non-Chris- with William P Alston Grand Rapids MI 49546 tian religions...
...His spiritual guides against, and the only pope of whom emerge: Mary, Thomas a Kempis, IgChristopher Ruddy Catholics under thirty-five have any sub- natius Loyola, and, above all, Francis de stantial memory...
...The vulnerability of the diary en"What a wonderful idea it is to integrate discussions of religion and public life with tries from these years makes clear that Jewish Studies--and all in the context of a great Christian-af liated university...
...Communist officials gouge out a man's eyes and throw him from the roof of Tibet's holiest shrine...
...El west...
...dragging the victim to death behind gal- these were for children...
...But Communist China must be unique in at least this regard: In Tibet, after they've killed you, they charge your family for the price of the bullet...
...Does months shy of my First Communion...
...Sales, whose gentleness and charity were ope John XXIII is both an Part of the answer is found in Journal of John's lifelong model...
...I he too often avoid necessary conflict...
...loping horses...
...diary, Journal of a Soul, comes at an op- How...
...Their firsthand accounts allow for a depth of detail no mere historian could match-as, for instance, when one ex-prisoner describes a wall to which MADE IN CHINA Tibetans were chained for days at a stretch...
...seems to serve no good purpose, but For many, he remains the embodiment rather to do them harm...
...Some chains, he explains, were attached lower on the wall than others...
...It is the first Jewish center that takes Jewish relations to He knew that the way of Christ was not Palestinians as a central ethical challenge...
...a Soul...
...the most significant and revolutionary So the reissue of Pope John's spiritual Christian event since the Reformation...
...with Peter van Inwagen Supported by John convoked a Roman synod and then Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame The Pew Charitable Trusts Vatican II, the latter at which John Paul II Featured speakers: was an active participant, and to which Paul Draper, Florida International University Contact: he has been firmly committed...
...11-I remember Yankee Stadium in 1979, In the context of these misgivings, it is not Saint Peter's in 1962...
...Plucked out of Commonweal 2 8 March 10, 2000 the Roman curia in 1925, the newly or- Baylor Univeristy announces the dained Bishop Roncalli was assigned there as apostolic visitor (later delegate...
...The Chinese even have twice subject to rule by outsiders...
...dialogue in the United States...
...I was born seven ity and worldly understanding, yet he years after John's death and turned eight repeatedly questions his own belief that in the "year of three popes," just a few a "caress is better than a scratch...
...Both men knew suffering intimately, John through childhood poverty and in his diplomatic service, John Paul II through the early C A LV I N loss of his parents, the experience of cCI_Iege nazism and communism, attempted assassination, and illness...
...Many passages are icon and a Rorschach test...
...eral Catholics, how does he compare with losity, who strives to imitate the purity John Paul II, the pope with whom he is and precocious sanctity of saints like most often contrasted and even set Aloysius Gonzaga...
...526.331 pp...
...John's smile was that of a The Next Fifty Years: man who knew how much God loves Beginning a Millennium of Hope and Possibility his people...
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