“What is Life?” conference in Krakow, June 2011

Adrian J. Walker, Robert Spaemann, David L. Schindler

A variety of Communio editors and authors participated in the June 2011 conference in Krakow, “What Is Life?: Theology, Science, and Philosophy”  organized by the Centre of Theology and Philosophy (Nottingham).

Participants included editors David L. Schindler, Adrian Walker, and D. C. Schindler; editorial board members Tracey Rowland, Antonio Lopez,  and Stratford Caldecott; and contributors Aaron Riches, Conor Cunningham, John Milbank, Robert Spaemann, Louis Dupre, Remi Brague, Simon Oliver, Mark Shiffman, Larry Chapp, John McCarthy, John Betz, Peter M. Candler, Martin Bieler, Javier Martinez, and others. (See the conference program here.) Photos courtesy Dr. Eric Austin Lee.

D. C. Schindler, John Milbank, Adrian J. Walker, Fr. John Behr

Rémi Brague, Conor Cunningham, Agata Bielik-Robson

Cardinal Scola Roundup

Below is an assortment of links to articles on Cardinal Angelo Scola. A longtime editor of the Italian Communio and frequent contributor to the English language edition, Cardinal Scola (currently Cardinal Patriarch of Venice) was appointed Cardinal Archbishop of Milan last week by Pope Benedict XVI.

Cardinal Scola is going back home. To Milan. (Sandro Magister). Meet the New Crown Prince of Catholicism (John Allen).  ‘A certain faith paves the way to open dialogue’ (Interview with  Inside the Vatican). Cardinal Scola Appointed Archbishop of Milan (National Catholic Register) Benedict’s ‘School of Community': Venice’s Scola to Milan (Whispers in the Loggia).

Watch a Youtube video of Cardinal Scola at the 2010 Rimini meeting here.

A selection of Communio articles by Cardinal Scola available online (pdf):

The Dignity and Mission of Women: The Anthropological and Theological Foundations  (1998).

Freedom, Grace, and Destiny (1998)

Human Freedom and Truth According to the Encyclical Fides et Ratio (1999).

Which Foundation? Introductory Notes (2001)

Education and Integral Experience (2003)

The Nuptial Mystery: A Perspective for Systematic Theology? (2003)

The Unity of Love and the Face of Man: An Invitation to Read Deus caritas est (2006)

See the entire list in the Communio Author Index.

Cardinal Ouellet

Here is another brief article on Cardinal Ouellet, from Whispers in the Loggia.

From the text:

As the appointment made Cardinal Marc Ouellet one of the Roman Curia’s “Big Three” and only served to further burnish a unique resume that’s taken the Quebecois from Communio articles to Latin American seminaries, a Roman professorship, prominent ecumenical posting and seven years at the helm of Canada’s oldest diocese, perhaps the immediate uptick of talk dubbing the Sulpician prelate a leading papabile would’ve been more conspicuous by its absence. Still, having capped his first year leading the “Thursday table” of the Congregation for Bishops with the move of a fellow member of the pontiff’s “kitchen cabinet” to the helm of Europe’s largest diocese, the media-friendly cardinal-prefect has gone on the record to address speculation of his odds in a potential Conclave, saying that, for him, being Pope “would be a nightmare.” (Go to the article).

Cardinal Ouellet’s articles in Communio:

Paradox and/or Supernatural Existential (1991) The New Catechism: An Event of the Faith (1994) Woe to Me If I Do Not Preach the Gospel (1994) The Mystery of Easter and the Culture of Death (1996) Priestly Ministry at the Service of Ecclesial Communion (1996) Jesus Christ, the One Savior of the World, Yesterday, Today, and Forever (1997) Covenantal Justice (2000) Mary and the Future of Ecumenism (2003) Theological Perspectives on Marriage (2004)

Read more about Cardinal Ouellet here. See a complete list of his articles here.