On December 3, 2021, the Theology Department at the University of St. Thomas gave me a belated retirement party — belated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These were my remarks. As some of you know, my project this fall at the Collegeville Institute at St. John’s has been to start a book on Catholic social…
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The classroom at the end of the world
When glamour beckons, can Benedictine values compete? “Do you reject the glamour of evil?” This striking question from the Catholic rite of baptism for adults has received surprisingly little attention from theologians. One might summarize all Benedictine values and practices as answering this question by turning from the merely glamorous toward quieter, deeper joys. The…