Communio editors in Rome, December 2007

Tomorrow, April 24, is the fifth anniversary of Pope Benedict’s papal inauguration Mass at St. Peter’s in Rome. Joseph Ratzinger was one of the co-founders of the journal Communio in 1972.  The December, 2007 international Communio editorial meeting was held in Rome, where members of the different international editions were received in the Vatican by Pope Benedict.

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On the Withdrawal Of Hans Küng’s Authorization to Teach

From the archives:

Hans Urs von Balthasar, On the Withdrawal of Hans Küng’s Authorization to Teach. Communio 7 (1980).

Ratzinger’s Communio Essays for Kindle

The first volume of Ratzinger’s collected Communio essays (Eerdmans, 2010) is now available at Amazon in a Kindle edition, here. The second volume, on anthropology and culture, will be out soon.

Renew or subscribe for “Silence”

The issue on “Silence and Prayer” will be printed this week. If you’d like to make the mailing list, please renew here or subscribe here ($35). Or you can send a gift subscription here. If you’d prefer to begin with the current issue on Money, please just include a note with your order and we’ll send it along. Thanks for reading!

Balthasar: The Fathers, the Scholastics, and Ourselves

New in our online archive:

Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Fathers, the Scholastics, and Ourselves. Communio 24 (1997). Original title “Patristik, Scholastik, und wir” (1939).

Robert Spaemann at the John Paul II Institute

German philosopher Robert Spaemann will deliver the 2010 McGivney Lectures at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. next week (April 12, 14, and 16, 2010). He will speak on “Nature and Natural Law in the Present Cultural Situation: Issues Concerning the Dignity of Human Life.”  Details can be found here.

Monday, April 12: 7 pm. Human Dignity and Human Nature
Wednesday, April 14: 7 pm. The Paradoxes of Love
Friday, April 16: 4 pm. Is Brain Death the Death of a Human Person?

The John Paul II Cultural Center is located at 3900 Harewood Road in Northeast DC, next to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Readers of Communio will already be familiar with Spaemann’s articles Rationality and Faith in God (pdf, 2005), Begotten, Not Made (pdf, 2006), When Death Becomes Inhuman (pdf, 2006) and the interview ‘An animal that can promise and forgive.’ (pdf, 2007).

As a preview of the forthcoming issue on Silence and Prayer, here is another Spaemann article for you to enjoy. First published in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2005, we make it available in English for the first time here: How Could You Do What You Did? (pdf), an examination of the concepts of shame and shamelessness.

Local readers are invited to attend the lectures, which will be held in the auditorium of the John Paul II Cultural Center. Tickets are required. Call 202-526-3799 for information and reservations.