The Jones Roundup 4

John L. Allen Jr. - March 31, 2006
The last 12 months: What hasn't happened; Who's paying attention?; The dictatorship of relativism; Tough love; Benedict the teacher

ZENIT - "Communion" a Key to Church Unity, Says Pope... Affirms That the Lord Doesn't Speak in the Past, but in the Present

dotCommonweal - The Risk of Encounter

Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar are rightly considered the two giants of twentieth century Catholic theology, indeed, as contemporary 'doctors of the church.'

Though their approach to theology is often dramatically different, they converge upon the heart of the matter: the person of Jesus Christ as God's very presence in our midst and our call to loving relationship with God in Christ...

Commonweal - Vatican II as ecumenical council: Yves Congar's vision realized by Joseph A. Komonchak

TCRnews.com - Poetic Experience by Jacques Maritain

TCRnews.com - Francis George and William J. Levada On the Need for a New Apologetics

On the Square - March 31, 2006

To find out what the Founders believed, we are not lacking in resources. An extremely helpful overview and analysis is Michael Novak’s book of a couple of years ago, On Two Wings. Of course Mr. Waldman and others are right in saying that the founders were not Bible-thumping fundamentalists of sweated born-againism along the lines of their caricature of Falwell and Robertson. The point is that people such as John Adams, Washington, Madison, and even Jefferson simply assumed the solidity of biblical (meaning Judeo-Christian) morality and its pertinence to the public order. Jefferson’s scissors-and-paste job on the teachings of Jesus only underscored what he took to be the self-evident truth of the Christian moral tradition...

Commonweal - Holy Alliance? The Danger of Mixing Politics & Religion by Paul Lauritzen (Quick & free registration)

Commonweal - The Catholic Voter, A Description with Recommendations by John J. DiIulio Jr.

TCR Musings - Beyond Old Left, New Left

Asianews.it - Europe’s Christian roots a secure direction for its future, says the Pope

Dorothy Day and the Light from the East: Eastern Christianity, Fathers of the Desert, Dostoevsky by Mark and Louise Zwick (hap-tip to TCR Musings)

TCRnews.com - Jeremy Update (updated regularly)

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly - Down Syndrome
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