Catholicity and Education

The Spring, 2013 edition of Communio is dedicated to the themes of “Catholicity” and “Education.” We continue our series devoted to the mystery of the Church as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic with the theme of “Catholicity.”. . .

“Catholic communion is the true life according to reason, in the sense that it makes present, in the most comprehensive way in which an earthly life can, the (enfleshed) Reason ‘through’ whom ‘all things were created.’”

"The desire to know already presupposes the love of the still unknown truth."

“Gratuity is part of the fundamental meaning of education. Only if we embrace this gratuity at the heart of the university do we in fact respond to the crisis of fragmentation.”

“Rome—which plays just as decisive a role as [Athens and Jerusalem] . . . is the driving force of the Western cultural adventure.”

“To return to the Church as the apostles and the Fathers understood it was one requirement of the spiritual life, of real-life communion, of a devotion that was at the same time humble and drawn from the sources, of a Christian éthos , of agreement between dogma and life, in a word, of holiness.”

“In the scientized praxis of life, education becomes a foreign body.”

“Both the stark denial and the more thinly veiled perception of a pagan world reflect . . . the irrepressible irruption of a divine presence that cannot be but trinitarian.”

“The Church is fully catholic inasmuch as Christ, who suffered for all, Jews and Gentiles, and rose as the paradigmatic new man for all, wills to pour out the fullness of salvation . . . into his Church.”

“[T]hose who come to the multiversity with some memory, some intuition, some dense loyalty for the eternal good are faced with the modern paradigm which excludes the possibility of such.”