1018 15 October 2018 Monthly Year 2 The Seven Pillars of Education according to J. M. Bergoglio The Bible in Evangelization Today .10 O Jesuit Journals and the First World War: On nationalism and dialogue Is Stalinism Alive in Russia? OLUME 2, N 2, OLUME V Kakichi Kadowaki: The inculturation of Christianity in Japanese culture 2018 The Cracks in Secularization Work and the Dignity of Workers: An interview with Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson A Tale of Love and Darkness CONTENTS 1018 BEATUS POPULUS, CUIUS DOMINUS DEUS EIUS Copyright, 2018, Union of Catholic Asian Editor-in-chief News ANTONIO SPADARO, SJ All rights reserved. Except for any fair Editorial Board dealing permitted under the Hong Kong Antonio Spadaro, SJ – Director Copyright Ordinance, no part of this Giancarlo Pani, SJ – Vice-Director publication may be reproduced by any Domenico Ronchitelli, SJ – Senior Editor means without prior permission. Inquiries Giovanni Cucci, SJ, Diego Fares, SJ should be made to the publisher. 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Vladimir Pachkov, SJ 63 Kakichi Kadowaki: The inculturation of Christianity in Japanese culture Tomás García-Huidobro, SJ 74 The Cracks in Secularization Giandomenico Mucci, SJ 80 Work and the Dignity of Workers: An interview with Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson Francesco Occhetta, SJ 93 A Tale of Love and Darkness Giovanni Arledler, SJ ABSTRACTS ARTICLE 1 THE SEVEN PILLARS OF EDUCATION ACCORDING TO J. M. BERGOGLIO Antonio Spadaro, SJ The challenge of education has always been of the greatest concern to the current pope. For him, “to educate is one of the most exciting arts of existence.” This article presents the seven pillars of his educational philosophy as it evolved during his episcopal ministry in Buenos Aires before his election to the papacy. The pillars: education as a common issue that helps build a nation’s future; the need to welcome and integrate diversity as a resource; the farsightedness and courage to face new anthropological challenges, even those we struggle to understand; restlessness as a driving force of education; questioning and research as a method; awareness and acceptance of limits; the familiar and generative dimension of the educational relationship. ARTICLE 17 THE BIBLE IN EVANGELIZATION TODAY Saverio Corradino, SJ – Giancarlo Pani, SJ “The sacred Scriptures are the very source of evangelization” (Evangelii Gaudium, No. 174). The words of Pope Francis emphasize the primary role of the Scriptures in evangelization. Pastoral care must not only place the Bible at the forefront, but must also consider it in relation to the world today, the people we deal with and the wider humanity moving around us. All evangelization is founded on the Word of God that is heard, meditated, celebrated and witnessed. “The Church does not evangelize unless she constantly lets herself be evangelized. It is indispensable that the Word of God be ever more fully at the heart of every ecclesial activity” (ibid.). ABSTRACTS ARTICLE 31 JESUIT JOURNALS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: ON NATIONALISM AND DIALOGUE Klaus Schatz, SJ What were the stances of the three Jesuit magazines Stimmen der Zeit (Germany); Études (France); and La Civiltà Cattolica (Italy) on the First World War? In Stimmen der Zeit and in Études we find a clear identification in the “just cause” of one’s own nation, albeit with different nuances and some reservations about unbridled nationalism. For La Civiltà Cattolica, however, the culprit of war was not a specific nation, but a modernity free of any transcendent connection. Hence, the reception of Pope Benedict XV’s peace initiative, which was grasped wholeheartedly only by La Civiltà Cattolica. Though the other two magazines did not criticize the peace initiative, they accepted it by subjecting it to a national interpretation. The author is professor emeritus of Church History at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. FOCUS 50 IS STALINISM ALIVE IN RUSSIA? Vladimir Pachkov, SJ How can we explain the fact that, although everyone knows who Stalin was and what his system did to the Russian people, he is still one of the most popular personalities in Russia? According to a Levada Center survey, Stalin is considered the most extraordinary personality in Russian history, even more than Pushkin or Putin. What drives the Russians to continue honoring this dictator? But do they really honor him? Or is there something completely different motivating this attitude? Although the overwhelming majority of Russians are opposed to any attempts to reaffirm the positive aspects of the dictator and his regime, we cannot ignore the process of creeping “re-stalinization” that started from below and that is now used by the state for its own purposes. The author teaches at the St. Thomas Theological Institute in Moscow. ABSTRACTS PROFILE 63 KAKICHI KADOWAKI: THE INCULTURATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPANESE CULTURE Tomás García-Huidobro, SJ The Jesuit priest Kakichi Kadowaki (1926-2017) lived out the best tradition of the Society of Jesus in its effort to inculturate the Gospel in Japan. He encountered Zen while attending secondary school at the Shizuoka public institute, which is famous for its educative methods. The exemplary death of a brother he admired determined his conversion to Christianity. He entered the Society of Jesus, and the teaching of Jesuit Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle gave him the desire to practice Zen as a way to unification with God. He then dedicated himself to creating a hermeneutic perspective according to which the approach to the Bible is based on a meditative-physical reading inspired by his practice of zazen. The author is director of the St. Thomas Institute in Moscow. NOTES AND COMMENTS 74 THE CRACKS IN SECULARIZATION Giandomenico Mucci, SJ Desecularization has recently become a topic of debate. It is a term that aims to describe a fact. Secularization, still the monolith that dominates Western culture, is showing cracks and fissures. It has been the case for some time that within the secular city one recognizes the distrust of some of its premises and results, among which are numbered individualism and indifference to ethics. ABSTRACTS INTERVIEW 80 WORK AND THE DIGNITY OF WORKERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CARDINAL PETER K. A. TURKSON Francesco Occhetta, SJ To elaborate further on the theme of work in a universal perspective, we turned to Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development. From the defense of the worker’s dignity to the relationship between work and justice, from corruption as evil to the positive forms of meritocracy, from the anthropological significance of the fourth industrial revolution to the Church’s trust in young workers: these are some of the issues addressed in this interview, which are the foundation of the Church’s spiritual, anthropological and social proposal for the world of work. ART, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT 93 A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS Giovanni Arledler, SJ Inspired by a news story about Israeli actress Natalie Portman’s refusal of the Genesis Prize, this article talks about her debut film as a director, based on the autobiographical novel, A Tale of Love and Darkness, a masterpiece by Israeli writer Amos Oz. The short film highlights only a part of the writer’s life, but describes very well the society and the atmosphere of Palestine in the years immediately before independence and the founding of the State of Israel. The director evokes very effectively the relationship that Oz had as a child with his parents, and especially with his mother, who dramatically died when he was just becoming an adolescent. 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As he himself revealed in our 2016 interview, he was involved in youth pastoral ministry and education when he was a parish priest in San Miguel.