Year of Faith: Faith Finding a New Voice

PROFESSOR JOHN HALDANE IS THERE A NEED FOR A CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL RENAISSANCE?

Professor John Haldane stresses need for faith in action at a meeting of general secretaries of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences.

Delegates at the 40th meeting of general secretaries of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences in Edinburgh, in June 2012, heard that a ‘Catholic intellectual renaissance’ was essential if religious liberties and Catholic schools were to be saved from aggressive secularism.

SACKS EUROPE’S SOUL

“Has Europe lost its soul to the markets?” The British Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, called for an alliance between Jews and Christians against the “aggressively...

O’CONNOR MEANING AND HOPE

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has said that Christians must not be “forced to live according to the new secular religion” prevailing in Britain...

NICHOLS FAITH FINDING A VOICE

Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster finds a widespread openness to expressions of faith.

In a lecture at Ushaw College in Durham...

Read more...http://www.thetablet.co.uk/page/nichols-faith-finding-a-voice
Read more...http://www.sces.uk.com/articles/has-europe-lost-its-soul-to-the-markets.html
Read more...http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/Home/News-Releases/April-June/Meaning-and-Hope-Christianity-s-place-in-Modern-Britain

Since July of 2012, at the bottom of many bulletins, we’ve highlighted articles by religious and political leaders - and scientists - who argue the case for religious faith at a time of increasing “aggressive secularism”.


Now, at the beginning of the Year of Faith, we’ve brought these articles together on this page. If, as Pope Benedict suggests in his Apostolic Letter, there is a ‘profound crisis of faith that has affected many people’, perhaps some of the reasoned arguments presented here might be helpful when, almost inevitably, we find our beliefs challenged. Certainly, we would hope that they could contribute to helping us accept the Holy Father’s  invitation to us to take our faith and encounter with Christ to another level - deepening and developing our faith.

Read more...http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/20407/is-there-a-need-for-a-catholic-intellectual-renaissance/

Published in “Bulletin 33, 8 July 2012”

Published in “Bulletin 34, 15 July 2012”

Published in “Bulletin 35, 22 July 2012”

Published in “Bulletin 36, 29 July 2012”

WILLIAMS WE GO ON SAYING ‘GOD’

An essay by Joel C. Daniels of Boston University in which he looks at the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury’s views on secularism in contemporary...

WARSI EUROPE’S SECULARISM

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi urged European countries to become more confident in their Christianity as she addressed a gathering at the Vatican...

NAZIR-ALI THREAT OF SECULARISM

In the week where Government argued that “Christians have no right to wear a crucifix at work”, we share the views of the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali...

Read more...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9511836/Human-rights-agenda-is-new-totalitarianism-bishop-warns-judges.html
Read more...http://people.bu.edu/joeld/Saying_God.pdf
Watch videohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9083045/Baroness-Warsi-decries-Europes-aggressive-secularism.html

Published in “Bulletin 37, 5 August 2012”

Published in “Bulletin 42, 9 September 2012”

Published in “Bulletin 43, 16 September 2012”

GUY CONSOLMANGO GOD'S MECHANICS: HOW SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS MAKE SENSE OF RELIGION

Vatican astronomer Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, curator of the Vatican’s meteorite collection, has been at the Vatican Observatory since 1993.

He writes regularly for The Tablet and has authored more than 100 scientific articles and several books, including “God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion.”

Watch videohttp://fora.tv/2008/03/02/Brother_Guy_Consolmagno_God_s_Mechanics

Published in “Bulletin 39, 17 August 2012”

GUY CONSOLMANGO GOD'S MECHANICS: THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF TECHIES


In the first  video, Guy suggested that one response to atheism might be to ask, “How do you define the God you don’t believe in?”

Here, Guy begins with an introduction to the Vatican Observatory, considers, with good humour, religious questioning by his techie friends - and reaches some interesting conclusions: not least, the importance of the Church as a foundation of knowledge on which to build our lives.

Watch videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPMylBOhZ5w

Published in “Bulletin 40, 26 August 2012”

VINCENT NICHOLS RELIGION... IS A VITAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION


"Religion is not a problem for legislators to solve but a vital contribution to the national conversation." A lecture given by Archbishop Vincent Nichols at the Thomas More Institute in Netherhall House on 7 December 2011.

Drawing on “Gaudium et Spes” and Pope Paul VI’s closing address at Vatican II, Archbishop Vincent explores three points of engagement between the secular world and the world of faith in pursuit of a true and fuller...

Watch videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_q9irOJEMI

Published in “Bulletin 49, 28 October 2012”

Read transcripthttp://www.rcdow.org.uk/fileupload/upload/ThomasMoreLecture2011812201191320.pdf