Priest under investigation by Holy See featured speaker at "Catholic" conference

[Caveman]

Here’s some of the article from The California Catholic Daily
(emphasis mine)

Father Peter Phan, a theologian under investigation by the Holy See, was the keynote speaker at an Oct. 6-7 conference sponsored by the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. The conference was about globalization and the Church.

Phan is a professor at Georgetown University and a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. His book, Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interreligious Dialogue, is the focus of an investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Among the book’s “problematic points,” according to the doctrinal congregation, is that it can be read to say that non-Christian religions in themselves “have a positive role in salvation history” and do not merely prepare for the Christian Gospel; that **“it makes little sense to try to convert non-Christians to Christianity;” **and that “the Catholic Church cannot be identified with the church of Christ.”

Phan spoke of the necessity of entering “into humble dialogue with other subsystems, particularly religious subsystems, to learn from them new truths and new ways of living – not seeming to tell them we are the best, we are superior to them and they are deficient."

Gee, for the life of me, I just can’t figure out why he’s under investigation!!

 

[JFonseka]

This is rather old news isn’t it. He’s done something similar to this before.

 

[Gerry_Hunter]

This all reminds me of a speaker – I’m pretty sure it was Dr. Peter Kreeft – who observed that universities were the last bastion of lost causes. He referred to the Cold War era as the time when one could find more communists in Russia than one could on western college campuses.

When the hippies-who-never-grew-up (and similarly minded) crowd need an audience, it seems that these are the only places they can find one. One of the joys of being a Catholic is that academic opinion is of absolutely no consequence next to the teachings of the Magisterium. So while there’s cause for concern about things like this, I doubt there’s any need for alarm.

Blessings,

Gerry