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Interview: Bishop Mark Davies Promoting A New Synthesis Of Faith And Reason INTERVIEW: BISHOP MARK DAVIES Editorial: Faith and the Future Act of Entrustment of England to Our Lady Our Lady of the Oak The Dream of the Rood FAITH Movement winter session, reports CROSSWORD Holloway on … Jesus: The Self-Conscious Manifestation of God – Part II Book Reviews: Philip Miller on a faith-science failure to acknowledge evolution Joanna Bogle on George Weigel and converting the 21st century Pravin Thevathasan on whether it matters if religion is true David Baldwin on Our Lady of Walsingham Issue: Volume 55 Number 2 March and April 2020 Price: £4:50 faith.org.uk Contents 1 EDITORIAL: Schools and the Faith 3 Christmas acrostic A. M. Hill 4 The Cosmic Meaning of the Eucharist Roger Nesbitt 9 The vocation of a Catholic teacher Peter Stravinskas 15 Fr Holloway and Professor Polyani Simon Heans 22 Crossword by Aurora Borealis 23 Interview: Joanna Bogle meets Curtis Martin of FOCUS 25 Holloway on: The Recognition of Jesus 32 Book Reviews The Papacy and the Orthodox. Sources and History of a Debate by A.Edward Siecienski, reviewed by Aidan Nichols Inventing the Universe. Why we can’t stop talking about science, faith and God, by Alister McGrath, reviewed by Fr Hdugh Mackenzie The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming by Celia Deane-Drummond reviewed by Conor McDonough God’s Healing Mercy. Finding Your Path to Forgiveness, Peace and Joy by ContentsContents Editorial 1 Editorial: Faith and the future 1 EDITORIAL: Schools and the Faith Faith and the future Kathleen Beckman reviewed by Claire Waddelove 4 Act of Entrustment of England to our Lady 3 Christmas acrostic 6 OUR LADY OF THE OAK, Islington Over to Mary A.Fiona M. Hill Campbell Hicks THE DECISION BY THE Bishops of England and Wales to renew the dedication of the country to Mary – following the original dedication by Richard II in the 14th century – taps 4 The Cosmic Meaning of the Eucharist into an important spiritual reserve. The Scottish Bishops similarly dedicated Scotland to 12 Welcome to Joseph Ryan Our Lady at the shrine of Carfin in 2017. And without ignoring that great nation, with its Roger Nesbitt own heritage and noble story, we need to explore this English thing for a moment. 14 FAITH Movement Winter Session - report 9 The vocation of a Catholic teacher Running a bit low? 16 PeterThe Dream Stravinskas of the Rood We use the word “reserve” in the sense that a reservoir holds water, or a good cellar a reserve of wine and food. A nation can have a reserve of spiritual strength, perhaps running a bit low – water can do that in a dry spell too – but still 1715 FrInterview: Holloway BISHOP and Professor MARK DAVIES Polyani available for use. There is, among Catholics in Britain, a reserve a rich heritage kept Simon Heans of faith, a recognition of a rich heritage kept with great courage with great courage 22 Crossword by Aurora Borealis by martyrs and cherished down generations, that exists in a sort of collective family album. It is multi-racial, is not associated with nationalism and 22 Crossword by Aurora Borealis is not political. It does not seek to be integriste or to indulge in notions of a Church/State 23 Holloway on... alliance that is associated with unhelpful examples abroad and a folk memory of bitter 23 IntJesus:erview: the Joannaself-conscious Bogle meets manifestation Curtis Martin of God of FOCUS - Part II Reformation conflict at home. It is not even particularly nostalgic. It is more like a family album - perhaps one of those new on-line sort – muddled, but recognisable, with pages yet to be filled and new sections opened. 2625 HolBookloway Reviews on: The RealistRecognition Guide to of Religion Jesus and Science by Paul Robinson, reviewed by Bafflement Philip Miller This spiritual reserve was opened up – and was also replenished by – the successful State 32 BookThe Ironies Reviews of Modern Catholic History by George Weigel, reviewed by Visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, exactly a decade ago this year. There was goodwill and Joanna Bogle a cheerful neighbourly mood which - to the bafflement of the mass media in general and The Papacy and the Orthodox. Sources and History of a Debate by the BBC in particular – brought crowds into the streets to cheer the Pope and coachload A.EdwardWhy We Need Siecienski, Religion byreviewed Stephen by T. Aidan Asma, Nichols reviewed by Pravin after coachload to the Mass at Cofton Park for the beatification of John Henry Newman. Thevathasan Inventing the Universe. Why we can’t stop talking about science, faith and God, Walsingham Pilgrims and Pilgrimage by Michael Rear, reviewed by David Newman – yes, he is an important part of this heritage. A very English saint in so by AlisterBaldwin McGrath, reviewed by Fr Hdugh Mackenzie many ways: Oxford, of course, and London up to a point, but more importantly also The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human unfashionable Birmingham, and railway journeys, and humour, and a strong sense of justice. And, as a Catholic, being misunderstood, and regarded as marginal to national life Becoming by Celia Deane-Drummond reviewed by Conor until reality dawned and the public came to grasp the bigger picture. And attractive in an McDonough ecumenical spirit: we were touched by the moving message of HRH the Prince of Wales at God’s Healing Mercy. Finding Your Path to Forgiveness, Peace and Joy by Newman’s canonisation, revealing as it did a real knowledge of the saint, and a love of his beautiful poems and hymns. Kathleen Beckman reviewed by Claire Waddelove Who we are Editor: Joanna Bogle, [email protected] A first point to grasp about the Catholic community of England and Wales is what a mix we are. By far the biggest annual pilgrimage to Walsingham is that of the Tamils. Another Editorial Board: Patrick Burke, Hugh MacKenzie, Andrew Nash, large group is Caribbean. Many of our parishes, and our priests – notably in South Luiz Ruscillo, Andrea Fraile, Tim Finigan, Christina Read London, for example – are African. There are large numbers of Filipinos among us. There Book Reviews Editor: Andrew Nash are substantial numbers of Indian people, many from Kerala. There are a good many Poles – they have their own churches and parish structure dating from the years following Subscriptions & Enquiries: Faith magazine, 58 Buckingham Way, Wallington, Surrey WWII, but are present in plenty of other parishes too. SM6 9LT or subscribe on-line at www.faith.org.uk, [email protected] 2 1 Saints • We might first of all beg for courage –particularly for our bishops, tasked with leading Newman is our newest saint, and he joins those whose names have become more and us and directing us. And let’s be specific: courage to tackle instructions from official more familiar to Catholics in Britain since the canonisation of the Forty English and Welsh Government bodies obliging schools to adopt “relationships a mother who cares education” forcing children to listen to false and crude Martyrs by Paul VI in 1970. Here, too, there was a reclaiming of truth. How pleasing it is to for her children note that many of our newer Catholic schools and colleges are named in their honour: St statements on sexual matters. We might ask for a clear and Edmund Campion, St John Payne, St Richard Reynolds, St Philip Howard, and the others united statement from our Bishops announcing that Catholic are now familiar to Catholics and non-Catholics alike in the 21st century. schools will use only material that strictly conforms to Catholic teaching both in style and in detail, centred on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. And more • It’s March – season of spring and the traditional time for some house-cleaning and We are not particularly tribal. Catholic events tend to have ecumenical guests, and there is tidying up, work generally supervised by mothers. Might our household bureaucracy a general and genial feeling that a common Christian witness is important and should be benefit from this? Some months back, the Catholic Education Service made a terrible presented whenever feasible. We are uninterested in old polemics: there are new issues mess of itself by adopting wholesale chunks of verbiage from a militant homosexual to tackle. lobby group. We are overdue for a major tidy-out there. We are uncomfortably realistic about the state of the Church (revelations of sexual sins • And let us beg for more and more men to respond generously a time for etc) and about falling Mass attendance and a shortage of clergy. to the call to the priesthood, for more religious sisters, for more renewal and hope Catholic teachers. And those requests should come with a sense We know our Catholic schools are popular and successful, but also that many (most?) of of discomfort: in today’s culture making a firm commitment is not easy, and the call the children and staff involved are not regular Massgoers. can quite easily be brushed aside as irritating. We quite like sharing gloomy statistics and announcing solutions that reflect our varied • But not all prayers have to be announced publicly, and perhaps personal opinions and loyalties. the most important will be those added from the depths of our from the depths hearts on matters of the heart. Mary as mother is particularly of our hearts open to pleas for personal help – for Catholics seeking good Heritage spouses, for the lonely and the forgotten, for the many broken families… And now the Bishops of England and Wales unite us all again with all of this heritage: this March they will dedicate the country to Mary.
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