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Explain why some authors in the Catholic tradition remain unafraid of contact with other religions and world views. Think about basic principles, such as 'unity', from Pieper, Dulles, De Lubac, and Newman.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. (Matthew 29:19-20)
The mission of the Church is to proclaim and establish the Kingdom of God begun by Jesus Christ among all peoples.
This mission cannot be accomplished by not talking to or being afraid of the people of the world.
It is also a bit hard to not contact the other people of the world when 1 in 6 people in the world are Catholic.
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 767-769: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1s ect2chpt3art9.shtml#767
With love in Christ.
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I am not sure what you mean by liberal but some of my favorite Catholic authors are:
Fr Lawrence Boadt
G. K. Chesterton:
Fr Andrew Greeley: http://www.agreeley.com/
Terry Hershey
Fr Richard Rohr: http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/
George Weigel
Arthur Zannoni
Pope John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI
And make sure you do not forget Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, and the rest of the Holy Spirit inspired authors of the Bible.
With love in Christ.
In distinction from the apostolic or Pauline epistles which were addressed to individual churches or persons, the term "catholic," in the sense of universal or general, was applied by Origen and the other church Fathers to the seven epistles written by James, Peter, John and Jude. As early as the 3rd century it came to be used in the sense of "encyclical," "since," as Theodoret says, "they are not addressed to single churches, but generally (katholou) to the faithful, whether to the Jews of the Dispersion, as Peter writes, or even to all who are living as Christians under the same faith." Three other explanations of the term have been given, namely,
(1) that it was intended to indicate a common apostolic authorship (only a few support this view);
(2) that it signifies that the seven epistles were universally received as genuine;
(3) that it refers to the catholicity of their doctrine, i.e. orthodox and authoritative versus heretical epistles whose teachings were in harmony with Christian truth. By some misconception of the word "catholic" the Western Church interpreted it as signifying "canonical" and sometimes called these epistles epistolae canonicae. That it was originally used in the sense of "general" epistles is now commonly received.
This is evident from their form of address. James wrote to all Jews, "of the Dispersion," who had embraced the Christian faith. In his first epistle Peter addressed the same Christians, including also Gentileconverts, resident in five provinces of Asia Minor
I have recently discovered the school of thought known as Esoteric Christianity via a book called Inner Christianity by Richard Smoley. Does anyone know of any authors who approach this topic from a Catholic stance?
You might be interested in studying the writings of the mystics.
Thomas Merton, St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila, and St Gregory of Nyssa are among the best known mystics.
Can someone give me a list of Catholic actors, singers, and sports figures? And several places still have people like Madonna listed, and she clearly is NOT Catholic anymore...so an updated list of Catholic actors, actresses, singers, musicians, sports figures, and maybe authors too.
Thank you!!!!!
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_ca tholic.html
AND it says if they still are.
Peace be with you!
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It was one of the great virtues of Lord Acton to have realized that the Catholic Church is subject to all of the imperfections of any other human institution, especially those with little transparency. The current sex-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church would have been of great concern to him. He was also concerned with the issue of papal infallibility on faith and morals. He opposed the doctrine and helped organize opposition to it at the First Vatican Council. He lost this battle but remained a Catholic. He never really accepted the doctrine (although he kept a certain ambiguous stance toward it). He believed that it had no basis in history or theology.
[Acton] cared most about the history of political, religious, and intellectual liberty, and his historical studies taught him that Catholic writers and scholars had often been willing to conceal and falsify the truth about the church’s past and the evil and immoral actions of pontiffs, saints, and princes in what they deemed the higher interests of Catholicism. For Acton this was inexcusable. He came to think that nothing was more important in the historian’s dealing with the past than to stigmatize wrongdoing, especially deeds like murder, assassination, persecution, and massacres carried out in the name of religion. The more powerful the worldly position of the culprits, he felt, the more they were to be condemned, and he considered that the authors and apologists who tried to justify or hide their crimes were even worse than the perpetrators.
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