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Matteo Ricci, #Jesuit missionary d 5/11 1610. After mastering Chinese and Confucian classics, he won respect as a scholar, publishing works on astronomy, philosophy, etc. His strategy: Christianity must eschew taint of colonialism and present itself in terms of Chinese culture.
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The actual recognition that church teaching can change was itself a product of the development of doctrine.
Here is incomplete list of instances in which Catholic church teaching has changed:
1. Slavery: was considered good in certain cases & now is considered evil in all cases.
2. Freedom of religion: Popes condemned it during 19th century; was accepted at 2nd Vatican Council
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Susannah Heschel's "The Aryan Jesus" is a good start. The German Christian movement was largely a Protestant phenomenon. For Catholics, see: Guenter Lewy, "The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany." As for the situation today--another story!
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On subject of women deacons, Francis appears to be more open to further reflection than first reporting suggested. He acknowledges that understanding of revelation can change and evolve with time. He is not closing the conversation. ncronline.org/news/vatican/f… via @ncronline
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This month's Publisher's letter from @OrbisBooks. Free shipping on featured titles, including Nahum Ward-Lev's "The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets." orbisbooks.com/
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BD of theologian Karl Barth, whose work confronted the temptation to subject God's Word to human ideology. This faced a grave test against Hitler's effort to coopt the churches to endorse his racist and ultra-nationalistic policies. Result: the "German Christian movement."
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FD of St. Damien de Veuster. As a young priest in Hawaii he offered to serve on the isle of Molokai, where those suffering from leprosy were exiled, in horrific conditions. He transformed a way-station to death into a joyful community. Eventually he succumbed to the disease.
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Jesus said of the woman who anointed him with oil that wherever the gospel was preached her deed would be remembered “in memory of her.” So it was. We remember her deed and even the names of the men who reproved her. But not her name. Given the erasure of women from the gospels
Pope Francis has such an easy going manner about him, but this was a direct and brutal answer that crushed the hope of anyone with any dreams of a female diaconate in the Church [Thread]
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...how can we trust that we have followed Jesus’ intentions with respect to women’s roles? For centuries Mary Magdalene was labeled a prostitute, due to the error of Pope St Gregory the Great. Now she is deemed “Apostle to the Apostles.” Come Holy Spirit!
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He believed society had become separated from the gospel, and thus lost any sense of the transcendent purpose of human activity. Social life was organized around production and the quest for profits. There was "dynamite" in the gospels but the church kept it under lock and key.
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He was more successful at formulating principles than translating them into actions. That changed in 1932 when he met #DorothyDay, a convert with a radical past. He showed her how to combine her faith with her commitment to the poor and oppressed. The CW was launched May 1 1933.
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Maurin's program was a "personalist revolution." He spoke of creating a society "where it is easier for people to be good." "The future will be different if we make the present different." He died on May 15 1949, his last years in silence, disabled by a stroke.
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