In bestowing the John Courtney Murray Award on Roger Haight SJ, CTSA President Frank Clooney noted of his most famous work on Christology that “it attracted attention all over the world, including the Vatican.” Proud to have published that book and seven others. @OrbisBooks
A beloved teacher, a brilliant scholar, a generous friend, a faithful son of Ignatius who has tried to make Christian faith intelligible and meaningful to a modern audience.
Stan Chu Ilo and @guardadoleo offered plenary talks together at #CTSA2023. Ilo’s “Handbook of African Catholicism” won a 1st Prize last night from Catholic Media Assoc. Leo’s book “Church as Sanctuary” coming this fall. @OrbisBooks
Sigrid Undset died June 10 1949. One of Dorothy Day’s favorite writers. She always gave copies of “Kristin Lavransdatter” to young women at the CW. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
Ready for action at #CTSA2023 in Milwaukee. Receiving the Ann O’Hara Graff Award Cecilia González-Andrieu gave a shout out to the new “Catholic Women Preach” series.
From my Cat Stevens phase— 1978, the next day my Catholic Worker brother Brian Terrell and I were arrested blocking railroad tracks at the Rocky Flats nuclear plant in CO. Where they make nuclear triggers for H bombs. I spent 16 days fasting in solitary in the Jefferson Co jail.
Happy 95th birthday to Gustavo Gutiérrez, with thanks for yr option for the poor, yr witness to the God of Life, and for helping us to read the Gospel with new eyes.
All theologies, including a theology of liberation, “are not worth one act of faith, love, hope, committed …in active participation to liberate humankind from everything that dehumanizes it and prevents it from living according to the will of God.”