Promoting A New Synthesis Of Faith And Reason EDITORIAL: 1968 and all that The Message of Westminster Cathedral by Leon Peckson A Fortified Cityby Philip Trower Innocence in Today’s World by Timothy Danaher Interview: Christiaan Alting von Geusau International Theological Institute Holloway on... The Gospel of St John CROSSWORD by Aurora Borealis Book Reviews Mgr Keith Newton of the Ordinariate recommends an account of earlier Anglican/Catholic conversations Fr Philip Andrews praises a useful primer on the Fathers Lucy Courlet de Vregille is impressed by a guide to living Christian marriage faithfully Issue: Volume 54 Number 2 March & April 2018 Price: £4:50 1 faith.org.uk 1 Contents ContentsContents Editorial 1 EDITORIAL: Schools and the Faith 11 EDITORIAL:EDITORIAL Schools and the Faith 3 Christmas acrostic In this issue A. M. Hill 3 Christmas acrostic 5 The Message of Westminster Cathedral 1968 and all that A.feature M. Hill by Leon Peckson 4 The Cosmic Meaning of the Eucharist When the FAITH Movement was foundedRoger in 1972, it was seen by Nesbitt 4 The Cosmic Meaning of the Eucharist many as essentially reactionary – reacting to the often confused 9 A Fortified City Roger Nesbitt 9 situation in the Church in those yearsThe immediately following the vocation of a Catholic teacher feature by Philip Trower Second Vatican Council. We were often Peterlinked in people’s minds with Stravinskas 9 The vocation of a Catholic teacher other groups that seemed to be primarily concerned with “getting Peter Stravinskas 12 Innocence in Today’s World 15 things back to the way things were”, to aFr rejection of the teachings Ho of lloway and Professor Polyani feature by Timothy Danaher the Council and/or to the liturgical reforms which followed it. 15 Fr Holloway and Professor Polyani Simon Heans Simon Heans But the FAITH Movement was never reactionary in that sense. If anything, it was reacting 22 Crossword by Aurora Borealis 16 Interview: Christiaan Alting von Geusau to something rather different – the often rather bleak and formulaic teaching that tended 22 Crossword by Aurora Borealis to dominate the seminaries of the 1940s and 50s. Father Holloway, founder of FAITH 23 Interview: Joanna Bogle meets Curtis Martin of FOCUS and longtime editor of this magazine, was regarded in those early days as something of 21 23 Int Hollowayerview: on...Joanna Bogle meets Curtis Martin of FOCUS The Gospel of St John 25 a troublemaker and those who workedHol with him recall being denouncedloway as “modernist”. on: 25 Holloway on: The Recognition of Jesus 2018 and some anniversaries 27 The CROSSWORD Recognition by of Aurora Jesus Borealis 32 Essentially – although this was not knownBook in the 1970s when there was so much happening Reviews 32 Book Reviews in the Church that it was difficult to discern authentic renewal amid the shouting and the The Papacy and the Orthodox. Sources and History of a Debate by 28 The Book Papacy Reviews and the Orthodox. Sources and History of a Debate by debating and the exodus of priests and religious sisters and so on – FAITH was one of the A.Edward Siecienski, reviewed by Aidan Nichols A.EdwardMgr Keith Siecienski,Newton of thereviewed Ordinariate by Aidan recommends Nichols an account of earlier New Movements that would play a growing role over the next decades. Inventing the Universe. Why we can’t stop talking about science, faith and God, InventingAnglican/Catholic the Universe. Why conversations we can’t stop talking about science, faith and God, by Alister The Church marks two notable anniversaries in 2018. The first isMcGrath, the 50th anniversary reviewed by Fr Hdugh Mackenzie by AlisterFr McGrath,Philip Andrews reviewed praises by aFr useful Hdugh primer Mackenzie on the Fathers of the climactic year 1968: students riotingThe in universities across the West,Wisdom the Soviet of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Lucy Courlet de Vregille is impressed by a guide to living Christian invasion of Czechoslovakia, hippies and yippies in California …and massive dissension in Becoming by Celia Deane-Drummond reviewed by Conor Becoming by Celia Deane-Drummond reviewed by Conor marriage faithfully the Catholic Church following the proclamation of Bl. Pope Paul VI’s landmark encyclical McDonough McDonough Humanae Vitae. And the other anniversary is of 1978 – the election of Pope St. John Paul, God’s Healing Mercy. Finding Your Path to Forgiveness, Peace and Joy by God’s Healing Mercy. Finding Your Path to Forgiveness, Peace and Joy by the first non-Italian Pope in centuries, the first Slav Pope, and the beginning of a more Kathleen Beckman reviewed by Claire Waddelove confident and authentic affirmation of Kathleenwhat Vatican II really taught. Beckman reviewed by Claire Waddelove Editor: Joanna Bogle, [email protected] These two anniversaries are linked in all sorts of ways. Back in 1968, no one really Editorial Board: Patrick Burke, Hugh MacKenzie, Andrew Nash, spoke confidently of the end of Communism: the cruel tentacles of this nasty ideology Luiz Ruscillo, Andrea Fraile, Tim Finigan, Christina Read had Eastern Europe in its grip and when the Czechs tried to loosen things up a little, Book Reviews Editor: Andrew Nash the Soviet Army moved to curl the grip tighter. A Pope from behind that Iron Curtain Subscriptions & Enquiries: Sister Andrea Fraile, 104 Albert Road, Glasgow G42 8DR seemed the unlikeliest of possibilities and such notions were never even discussed or subscribe on-line at www.faith.org.uk, [email protected] 2 1 among Catholics in the West, busy with internal problems. They were mostly either trying The Great to hold firm in the face of widespread dissent from authentic Church teachings or were In 2018, St John Paul - often and rightly called the Great – is seen as one of the most notable part of that dissent or swept along by its confusing surge. The election, a decade later, of Popes in history. His writings, especially on human dignity and freedom, the sanctity of the Archbishop of Krakow to the see of Peter would change everything – a further decade life, the significance of male and female, the importance of marriage, and the centrality on would see the collapse of Communism and the freeing of Eastern Europe and also the of Christ as the Redeemer of the human race, are taught as part of the authentic renewal regrowth of a sense of confidence and unity in the Church with massive crowds at vast of the Church following the Second Vatican Council. To young priests and seminarians of Papal pilgrimages and the emergence of World Youth Days and the discovery of a fresh the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, generation open to the truths of the Catholic faith. and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek New Movements and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood. The New Movements were – and are – the In 2018 there is talk of Paul VI, already beatified, being canonised: his prophetic voice bridge between that post- in Humanae Vitae is correctly seen as heroic. It is the unchanging and unchangeable Vatican II era and today’s teaching of the Church. The FAITH Movement is proud and glad to be able to affirm full Church. The founders of support for that encyclical in its anniversary year. Today there is recognition of Pope Paul FAITH did not know very VI’s quiet courage in his final years as dissent ripped through the Church and he was much – if anything – about personally insulted and denounced by both “traditionalist” and “progressive” factions. We the other Movements applaud Paul VI, and take this opportunity to oppose any and all attempts to “water down” that were emerging as Humanae Vitae or to promote a nudge-and-wink suggestion that its teaching should be the 1970s began. Chiara ignored. It teaches the truth, and we are proud to affirm it. Lubich had founded the Focolare decades The Lens before – its name, but not In 2018 we can view 1968 and 1978 through the lens of what happened in the ensuing much more than that, might have been known vaguely by Fr Holloway and others. The decades. The growth of the New Movements in the Church, and their steady, and steadying, charismatics at that time were generally regarded as being a bit odd – as indeed some influence has been one of the most important, but often publicly unnoticed, facts of these perhaps were in those early days before John Paul, with the aid of the magnificent Cardinal decades. Their support for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, their thriving seminaries, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), called them to a realisation of their place with Peter in the their young priests, and their joyful presence at great international Catholic gatherings, fullness of the Church and to growing Eucharistic and Marian devotion. Movements such have all contributed to renewal and given fresh hope to the Church. as France’s Emmanuel community and Italy’s Communion and Liberation were unknown in Britain. The Neo-Catechumenate was in its infancy. And new religious orders established In 2018 we can also recall 1988, when an Archbishop led a group out of the Church, by noted figures such as Fr Benedict Groeschel and Mother Angelica were at that time still ordaining his own bishops without Papal mandate and spending the next years being fostered in the hearts and souls of those remarkable founders.