Rome orders Roger Haight to stop teaching, publishing

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Rome orders Roger Haight to stop teaching, publishing

American Jesuit theologian Fr. Roger Haight, whose writing on Christ and non-Christian religions was censured by the Vatican in 2005 for causing “grave harm to the faithful,” has been ordered by Rome to stop teaching and publishing on theological subjects

Sources told NCR that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s doctrinal agency, communicated the restrictions to the Jesuits in spring 2008. They apparently came amid back-and-forth discussions involving the Vatican, the Jesuit leadership in Rome, and the order’s New York province. Among other steps, Jesuit officials in America reportedly had consulted the late Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles in an effort to resolve the concerns.

A Jesuit spokesperson in Rome confirmed the measures, but said that a “final resolution” has not yet been reached in the Haight case, suggesting that the bans on teaching and publishing could turn out to be interim measures.

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Pax_Vobiscum_57 said:
What a good shepherd we have in Pope Benedict XVI!
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The old Cardinal Ratzinger fanclub slogan used to be “putting the smackdown on heresy.”

On a related note, does anyone know who John Dominic Crossan is and what his status is with the Church? He seems to get quoted a lot in the history channel.
 
And one can see why according to Wiki:

John Dominic Crossan (b. Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1934) is an Irish-American religious scholar known for co-founding the controversial Jesus Seminar. Crossan is a major figure in the fields of biblical archaeology, anthropology and New Testament textual and higher criticism. He is also a lecturer who has appeared in television documentaries about Jesus and the Bible. He is especially vocal in the field of Historical Jesus studies.
Though his father was a banker, Crossan was steeped in the rural Irish life experienced in frequent visits to the home of his paternal grandparents. On graduation from St. Eunan’s College, a boarding high school in 1950, Crossan joined the Servites, a Roman Catholic religious order and moved to the United States. He was trained at Stonebridge Seminary, Lake Bluff, Illinois, then ordained a priest in 1957. Crossan returned to Ireland where he earned his Doctorate of Divinity in 1959 at Maynooth College, the Irish national seminary. There followed two more years of study in biblical languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Thus equipped, he returned to the seminary which ordained him, and through four years of teaching he “first began to learn something about the Bible” as he puts it. In 1965 Crossan embarked on two additional years of study, this time in archaeology based at the Ecole Biblique in Jordanian East Jerusalem. His work led him to journey through many Middle Eastern countries before escaping just days prior to the outbreak of the Six Day War of 1967.[1]
After a year at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois, and a year at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, **Crossan chose to resign his priesthood. He cited as reasons both a desire for more academic freedom, and the freedom to be bound in matrimony. **He married Margaret Dagenais, a professor at Loyola University (Chicago) in the summer of 1969, and joined the faculty of DePaul University that fall, where he taught undergraduates Comparative Religion for twenty-five years until retiring in 1995. His first wife died of a heart attack in 1983. Crossan married Sarah Sexton, a social worker with two grown children, in 1986. Since his academic retirement, Crossan has lived in the Orlando, Florida area, remaining active in research, writing, and teaching seminars.

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Crossan suggests Jesus was an illiterate “Jewish Cynic” from a landless peasant background, initially a follower of John the Baptist. Jesus was a healer and man of great wisdom and courage who taught a message of inclusiveness, tolerance, and liberation. “His strategy . . . was the combination of free healing and common eating . . . that negated the hierarchical and patronal normalcies of Jewish religion and Roman power . . . He was neither broker nor mediator but . . . the announcer that neither should exist between humanity and divinity or humanity and itself.”[2]
Out of his study of cross-attestation and strata of the ancient texts, Crossan denies the facticity of many of the gospel stories of Jesus, including his “nature miracles”, the virgin birth, and the raising of Lazarus.
 
benedictgal said:
On a related note, does anyone know who John Dominic Crossan is and what his status is with the Church? He seems to get quoted a lot in the history channel.
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Don’t know, but glad I haven’t heard much about him lately. Intellectually, the guy’s a loser, i.m.o. His arguments hold almost no water. I’m a better scripture scholar than he is. No one I hang with in even the most out-there scriptural interpretations buys his theory that Jesus supposedly said like 3 things. Right. That’s why there are duplicate & highly similar events recounted, & similar dialogue repeated, among the Synoptics. Because the core Christian believers conspired to fabricate out of whole cloth an oral tradition, and then the Synoptic authors. as well as the author of the Fourth Gospel, recorded fictional sayings because supposedly that would have been the only way to evangelize people.

If anything, the sayings of prophets, rabbis, teachers would be especially remembered because culturally and religiously oral teaching was the foundation of ancient Judaism and Christianity.

Crossan doesn’t even know his history. He, like many atheists who keep beating an idea to death in an attempt to get someone to listen, strikes me as very unhappy. Many such people employ radical theories to get attention; others do so because they are projecting their own negativity.

He needs to just go away.
 
On a related note, does anyone know who John Dominic Crossan is and what his status is with the Church? He seems to get quoted a lot in the history channel.
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He must be quite old by now–can someone please tell me if he has repented and returned to the church? I certainly hope so.

Very often, in the last few years, Crossan has appeared on the History Channel and claimed to the a “Christian” before he goes into an attack on some basic Christian belief. That way, I am afraid, he can confuse and/or undermine the beliefs of all who hear him.

When asked why a man who believes Christ never rose from the dead (Crossan claims dogs ate the body) can call himself a Christian, he says it was all a metaphor.

When the movie “The Passion” came out he was so annoyed at the large numbers going to see the movie that he wrote a book along with Borg, I think, giving his interpretation of what happened that week.

This just seems so malicious, as if he were doing his best to hurt the belief of other people. So I would really hope to hear he has repented. Does anyone know?

God bless, Annem
 
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