You Call This Formation?
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the griping in the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph over Bishop Robert Finn's controversial moves to refocus adult education and lay formation.
A central focus of Finn's changes is his downsizing of the "New Wine" lay ministry program, a favorite of the progressive die-hards. Well, the reading list for New Wine -- or "New Whine" as its critics have called it -- has popped up.
No Ratzi. No Teilhard de Chardin. No Von Balthasar. But two of the six books are Richard McBrien -- tell me you're surprised.
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A central focus of Finn's changes is his downsizing of the "New Wine" lay ministry program, a favorite of the progressive die-hards. Well, the reading list for New Wine -- or "New Whine" as its critics have called it -- has popped up.
No Ratzi. No Teilhard de Chardin. No Von Balthasar. But two of the six books are Richard McBrien -- tell me you're surprised.
McBrien, Richard P. Ministry. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987. $12.00Um, does this fit some definition of "Catholicism" I don't know about?
Ramey, David A. Empowering Leaders. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1991. $14.95
Marthaler, Berard. The Creed, revised. Mystic: Twenty-Third Publications, 1993. $24.95
McBrien, Richard P. Catholicism, New Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. $36.00
Leckey, Dolores. Seven Essentials for the Spiritual Journey. Crossroads, 1999. $12.95
Hanigan, James P. As I Have Loved You: The Challenge of Christian Ethics. New York: Paulist Press, 1986. $14.95
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posted by Rocco Palmo at 03:10
1 Comments:
Here is a nice quote from the Center for Pastoral Life and Ministry:
"We are excited to use the internet as a means of spreading Christ's prophetic message of collaboration, justice, and inclusion."
Gee, and I somehow thought that Christ's prophetic message was the call to repentance and that the Kingdom of God was at hand. And those other little matters about God becoming man so that we might become gods, the Atonement, and so on. Guess I was wrong!
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