Tobias Haller BSG
The serious and sometimes satirical reflections of a priest, poet, and pilgrim —
who knowing he has not obtained the goal, presses on in a Godward direction.
December 12, 2008
Avery Dulles SJ RIP
I just saw an announcement that Cardinal Avery Dulles, a hard-minded but generous-hearted Jesuit, has died, at the age of 90, in the infirmary at Fordham University, where he was in residence in recent years, just a few blocks down the hill from my parish church. When he was created Cardinal in 2001, I was tempted to send a note saying how happy it always makes me to hear that one of my parishioners has been honored. I'm sorry I didn't, as I think he would have smiled. Perhaps he is smiling now. God rest him, in eternal light.
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May Cardinal Dulles rest in peace and rise in glory.
ReplyDeleteI owe a good bit to the Jesuits, including help to pay the cost of my college education.
...et lux perpetua luceat eis.
ReplyDeleteObituary here from the London Times:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5332887.ece
I know his work mainly from two books, "The Catholicity of the Church" and "The Assurance of Things Hoped For."
Both, I think, fall in the category of "Patient Explanations" rather than groundbreaking theology. But it is surely a valuable talent to be systematic and lucid.