Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER The Year of Faith: Thinking with the Church ................... Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. ARTICLES 35 The Blessings of Liberty ........................................................... Gerard V. Bradley Why the Church Has Had to Fight Numbers 2 the Contraception Mandate.......................................Kenneth D. Whitehead Summer 2012 Casey at Twenty: Lessons from a Judicial Disaster ......................William Saunders Interpreting Vatican II: Beyond Continuity/Discontinuity ......Fr. John Conley, S.J. Blessed James Alberione’s Intercessional Cure of Maria Librada Gonzalez-Rodriguez .................Greg F. Burke, MD, FACP Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ......................................................Jude P. Dougherty Paul Ryan’s Austrian Tutors .....................................................Jude P. Dougherty BOOK REVIEWS The Rise and Fall of Triumph: The History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966-1976 by Mark D. Popowski ... D. Q. McInerny Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition by John W. Carlson ...................... D. Q. McInerny Fire of Love: A Historical Novel about Saint John of the Cross by José Luis Olaizola, Translated by Stephen Caro .............. D. Q. McInerny The Problem with Multiculturalism: The Uniqueness and Universality of Western Civilization by John M. Headley ..................... Jude P. Dougherty Cultural Revolution in Berlin: Jews in the Age of Enlightenment by Shmuel Feiner and Natalie Naimark-Goldberg .......... Jude P. Dougherty Moral Reasoning: Rediscovering the Ethical Tradition by Louis Groarke ...................................................... Jude P. Dougherty Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law by Richard Epstein ......................... Jude P. Dougherty God and the Public Square by G. Elijah Dann ................. Robert Nicholas Bérard Understanding Abortion: From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought by Stephen D. Schwarz with Kiki Latimer ............................ James Harold The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt ..............................Val J. Peter ISSN 1084-3035 APPLY FOR MEMBERSHIP Fellowship of Catholic Scholars P.O. Box 495 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Notre Dame, IN 46556 AN INVITATION TO MEMBERS OF THE FELLOWSHIP (574) 631-5825 catholicscholars.org EX CATHEDRA J. Brian Benestad, Editor The Transformation of Theology in [email protected] Margaret Farley’s ‘Just Love’ ................................................J. Brian Benestad FCS Quarterly • Summer 2012 1 THE PRESIDENT’S LEttER The Year of Faith: Thinking with Fellowship of Catholic Scholars the Church Scholarship Inspired by the Holy Spirit, in Service to the Church by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. President, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars CONTENTS he Congregation for the Doctrine of THE PRESIDENT’s leTTER .........................................2 the Faith recently declared that Just Love: ARTICLES A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics The Blessings of Liberty ................................................. 4 (2006) by Sr. Margaret A. Farley, R.S.M., Why the Church Has Had to Fight Tof Yale Divinity School was “not consistent with the Contraception Mandate ..................................... 6 authentic Catholic theology.” A storm of controversy Casey at Twenty .............................................................12 ensued. Perhaps it will be helpful to consider this Interpreting Vatican II ....................................................14 case in relation to the Year of Faith. This special year Blessed James Alberione’s Intercessional Cure of devotion began on October 11, 2012, the fiftieth of Maria Librada Gonzalez-Rodriguez .....................19 anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ...........................................22 Council Paul Ryan’s Austrian Tutors .........................................23 In his Apostolic Letter Porta Fidei, Pope Benedict explains that the Year of Faith is timed to BOOK REVIEWS commemorate not only the golden anniversary of The Rise and Fall of Triumph .......................................25 the Council but also the twentieth anniversary of the Words of Wisdom.........................................................27 Catechism of the Catholic Church. As with the encyclicals Fire of Love .....................................................................28 Quadragesimo Anno and Centesimus Annus, the papal The Problem with Multiculturalism ..........................30 choice to mark anniversaries is not simply ecclesial Cultural Revolution in Berlin ......................................31 sentimentalism. Quite to the contrary, the goal of Moral Reasoning ............................................................32 calling attention to special dates is to use them in Design for Liberty .........................................................32 some creative way so as to move matters forward. In God and the Public Square .........................................33 reflecting on the forty years since Rerum Novarum, Pius Understanding Abortion ..............................................35 XI seems to have been as eager to reformulate Leo The Righteous Mind......................................................36 XIII’s notion of a living wage in terms of a family wage as he was to articulate the principle of subsidiarity. In honoring the centenary of Rerum Novarum, John Paul BOOKS RECEIVED ...........................................................37 II was not only celebrating the demise of the Soviet NotICE ................................................................................38 communism but also initiating an examination of APPLY FOR MEMBERSHIP ..............................................38 conscience about the proper purposes of the liberties OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS .......................................39 and opportunities of democratic forms of government and capitalist systems of economics. AN INVITATION TO MEMBERS ...................................40 It is thus no surprise that Pope Benedict’s invita- EX CATHEDRA .................................................................41 tion to the Church to undertake a Year of Faith uses the anniversaries of the Council and the Catechism to em- Reminder: Membership dues will be phasize the need for the hermeneutic of continuity in mailed out the first of the year and are the interpretation of the Second Vatican Council. The based on a calendar (not academic) year. pope uses the two anniversaries in order to promote 2 FCS Quarterly • Summer 2012 “the ever necessary renewal of the Church” (§5), and Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith received to encourage proper faith formation for Catholics (§12) an inadequate response from her to the questions raised after a long period in which confusion about what the about her work. faith teaches and requires has been abetted by theologi- The core of the defense that she offered seems cal dissent. rather odd from a past president of the Catholic Theo- Throughout Porta Fidei there is an uplifting tone logical Society of America. She said: “I can only clarify that is crucial to the message – the joy that will be part that the book was not intended to be an expression of of wholehearted devotion to the true faith. We see this current official Catholic teaching, nor was it aimed spe- point in a special way in the summons to charity with cifically against this teaching. It is of a different genre which the letter ends. “The Year of Faith,” Benedict altogether.” The book, she noted, offers “contemporary says, will be “a good opportunity to intensify the wit- interpretations” of justice and fairness in human sexual ness of charity.... Faith without charity bears no fruit, relations as a way of moving away from a “taboo moral- while charity without faith would be a sentiment con- ity” and drawing on “present-day scientific, philosophi- stantly at the mercy of doubt. Faith and charity each cal, theological, and biblical resources.” These scholarly require the other...” (§14). terms risk disguising an abandonment of the genuine The interesting reference here to being “constantly principles of Catholic morality in the area of sexuality at the mercy of doubt” presumably has reference both that is the topic of this book. to the unsettling ambiguities possible in a personal life As will be evident from a review of her book else- that is not rooted in religious faith in God and those where within this issue of the Quarterly, the book in ambiguities prevalent in a culture whose Christian question contains an attempt to present a theological presuppositions are no longer taken for granted. Pope rationale for same-sex relationships, for masturbation, Benedict describes the latter situation when he writes: and for remarriage after divorce. Thankfully, Sr. Farley “It often happens that Christians are more concerned does admit the discrepancy between her position and for the social, cultural, and political consequences of Catholic teaching in her official response to the Vati- their commitment, continuing to think of the faith as a can’s assessment: “I do not dispute the judgment that self-evident presupposition for life in society. In reality, some of the positions contained within it are not in not only can this presupposition no longer be taken for accord with current official Catholic teaching.”