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U.S. Jesuit and French philosopher
win Ratzinger Prize
The Joseph Ratzinger-
Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation,
established to promote studies in
theology and philosophy, will award
one of its two major prizes this year
to U.S. Jesuit Fr Brian E. Daley, a
patristics expert and professor of
theology at the University of Notre
Dame.
The other prize winner is
Remi Brague, a French professor of
the philosophy of European religions
at Ludwig-Maximilian University in
Munich. The two will receive their
prize from Pope Benedict XVI at the
Vatican on 20 Oct.
Announcing the recipients
of the 50,000 euro (about
$64,620) cash prize, retired Italian
Cardinal Camillo Ruini said that
“unfortunately,” Fr Daley, 72, is not
as well known in Italy as Brague
is. Calling him “a great historian of
patristic theology,” Cardinal Ruini
also said, “he has published an
impressive - and I mean incredible
- number of scientific articles on
patristic theology, but also studies
on the life and spirituality of the
Society of Jesus, as well as on
theological and ecumenical themes
of current interest.”
In addition to teaching and
writing, Fr Daley serves as the
executive secretary of the Catholic-
Orthodox Consultation for North
America.
The Jesuit is the author of
The Hope of the Early Church,
On The Dormition of Mary: Early
Patristic Homilies, and Gregory of
Nazianzus, a volume in the series,
The Early Church Fathers. He
also was the English translator of
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Cosmic
Liturgy: the Universe According to
Maximus the Confessor.
Brague, the other prize
winner, is a married father of four
children who taught at the Sorbonne
in Paris for 20 years, and moved
to Munich in 2002. He has been a
visiting professor at Pennsylvania
State University, Boston College
and Boston University.
His books include: Eccentric
Culture, The Wisdom of the World,
The Law of God, The Legend of
the Middle Ages, and On the God
of the Christians.
The Vatican foundation
funding the prize, as well as
scholarships for promising doctoral
students, was established in 2010
with Pope Benedict’s approval and
his designation of just more than
$3 million from royalties earned on
his books (the rest of his royalties
are given to charity).
The prize winners were
chosen by the foundation’s scientific
committee that has Cardinal Ruini;
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican
secretary of state and others.
- CNS
French Jesuit martyred in Madagaskar
declared a saint
On 21 Oct Fr Jacques Berthieu (1838-1896), a French Jesuit,
missionary and martyr in Madagascar, will be declared a Saint. To
commemorate the occasion, Fr General wrote a letter to the whole
Society. He said, “The apostolic vitality of the provinces of Africa and
Madagascar that are part of JESAM and our renewed awareness of
sentire cum Ecclesia invite us to receive with fervor the witness of
Jacques Berthieu.” After recalling the main events of the Saint’s life and
remembering his martyrdom, Fr Nicolás highlights some features of his
life as a missionary, a man of prayer, and a pastor. - SJ Web
Jesuit killed in Madagaskar
“Fr Bruno Raharison has been victim of a violent
assault and has suffered a brutal death. The local
Jesuit community is in shock.” This was how, on 30
Sept ‘12 the news-agency Fides announced the death
of Fr Raharison. He was a member of the Provincial
Curia community in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Fr
Bruno, a Madagascan citizen, was killed during a
robbery. Some inhabitants found his car near the town
of Carion, parked along the road from Antananarivo to
Tamatave. The police kept the car under surveillance.
The following day, the young man, who tried to take
possession of the car, was arrested. The police found
Fr Bruno’s body about 400 meters from the spot where
the car had been abandoned. Fr Raharison had been
struck a number of times on the back, chest and head
with an edged weapon. The criminals wanted to steal
the car which Fr Bruno had just bought for his work.
During the trip, he was accompanied by a boy who
helped him in his travels. According to local sources, it
seems that this lad, together with some of his friends,
was the one who organized the ambush that led to Fr
Raharison’s death.
- SJ Web
Book of a Jesuit AIDS Pioneer
Fr Ted Roger, a British Jesuit who spent his life
pioneering social change in Zimbabwe and beyond,
has published his memoirs. Jesuit, Social Pioneer and
AIDS Activist in Zimbabwe was launched in August in
South Africa, and in September in Zimbabwe. Fr Ted
spent five decades in Zimbabwe, pioneering social
change in response to what he saw around him.
Among his many achievements are the founding of
the high-quality School of Social Work at the University
of Zimbabwe, and his visionary response to the AIDS
crisis. “The main impact of the book is that the man
himself comes through. The imagination and energy
that we have always associated with Ted is written
on every page,” said Fr David-Harold Barry SJ at the
Zimbabwe launch.
- SJ Web
Meeting on Clavigero
On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of
the death of Jesuit Francisco Xavier Clavigero (1731-
1787), the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the
UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
organized an international meeting in his honour. A
number of scholars and researchers from Spain, Brazil,
Great Britain and the United States participated in, and
contributed to the meeting. Francisco Xavier Clavigero
is mainly known for his work, Historia Antigua de
México, published in 1780. But he was also the author
of other books, such as La Historia de la Antigua Baja
California. All these works had a considerable influence
on both his contemporaries as well as on subsequent
generations.
- SJ Web
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