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Seán Ó Conaill: In 2025 why are we still stuck with an inadequate theology of the cross?
April 19 2025
Joe O'Leary
"And yet to read e.g. the account of Thomas’ reactions to the news of Jesus’ return in John’s Gospel... is to be faced with a stark choice. Either that account is a very deliberate and conscious fabrication, and therefore deeply dishonest, or those who wrote it were fully and truly convinced that the events recounted had truly happened. There are no other options." Sorry, Sean, you are reacting just as I did as a 19 year old when a German man shared his problems with the contradictions in the Resurrection narratives. Ground zero in this vast modern discussion is Samuel Reimarus's demolition of the tale of the guards at the tomb in the 18th century. Dealing with such problems, the Vatican talks a lot about "literary genres" (such as midrash). John knows the importance of giving Jesus concrete historical location and his Gospel contains many anti-docetic details -- but even these are selectively planted for theological purpose. John builds on Mark, but not fearing to correct him, e.g. in the rendering of the agony in the Garden -- John 12 has Jesus say that he will NOT beg the chalice to pass, and in the Garden he stupendously causes the cohort come to apprehend him to fall on their knees three times. (See Jörg Frey, Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel; https://www.amazon.com/Theology-History-Fourth-Gospel-Tradition/dp/1481309897) Ancient sources insist that John is "the spiritual Gospel" and Origen held (in his Commentary on John, Bk X) that the entirety of Chapter 2 of John is an allegory about the Logos coming into the world attended by his powers (though on other occasions he could be heavily literalist, making Jesus heal three different sets of blind men as he entered Jericho so as to wipe out the difference between the literal details).Show more ›
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ACP Leadership Team: Pope Francis (1936-2025)
April 21 2025
Joe O'Leary
As he moved toward death his effective witness to the Gospel was concentrated in luminous and touchi... ng gestures: visiting the prisoners in Regina Caeli; phoning friends in Gaza as he did every evening since October 2023; dealing with Vance; telling a journalist he had not seen death but the approaches of death -- "brutta cosa!" -- with a joyful laugh; appearing before a delirious crowd on Easter Sunday (just yesterday!). I was in Rome when he was elected in March 2013 and I left Rome for the airport (misconstruing the 8.55 place for Beijing as a.m. rather than p.m.) as he was dying. These 12 meteoric years will never be forgotten.Show more ›
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Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at age of 88
April 21 2025
Soline Humbert
Francis, alive with the Risen Christ.
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Seán Ó Conaill: In 2025 why are we still stuck with an inadequate theology of the cross?
April 19 2025
Joe O'Leary
Paddy, thanks for your question -- which made me discover that I've already written next Sunday's se... rmon: https://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/resurrection I follow 1 Cor 15 on the resurrection -- with all its enigmas. The natural (psychical) body is a seed that is raised as a spiritual (pneumatic) body. To use the language of Easter Week 1916, it is "changed utterly".Show more ›
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