-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Remy C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "endsecrecy list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [endsecrecy] Dulles Son Becomes Cardinal Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:24 PM From: http://www.nypost.com/01222001/commentary/21983.htm CROWNING GLORY OF DULLES' CAREER Monday, January 22, 2001 By ROD DREHER NEW YORK, New York: the city so great they named it twice. And now they're going to give it two cardinals! Everybody knew that Archbishop Edward Egan would get a red hat, but only a relative few had any idea that the Jesuit Father Avery Dulles would become a prince of the Church as well. John Paul II's elevation of the 82-year-old Fordham scholar, widely regarded as America's most influential Catholic theologian, is the crowning glory to a long and distinguished priestly career. And the justice of the pope's gesture to him is one thing this country's fractured Catholic community can agree on. There is, papal biographer George Weigel once wrote, "little wonder that virtually everyone on the American Catholic scene regards Avery Dulles as the plumb line of theological good sense." Though always an active participant in the theological controversies of his time, the judicious Dulles has been captive neither to a hidebound conservatism nor the anything-goes liberalism dominant in contemporary theological circles - and certainly in the Society of Jesus. Dulles' fidelity and fair-mindedness have generally kept him above the factional fray while allowing him to engage the issues rending the Church in America. A scion of one of America's great Protestant establishment families, Dulles was part of the greatest generation of 20th-century intellectual Catholic converts, among them Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh and St. Edith Stein. His decision to enter the Jesuits coincided with his 1940 conversion. Like the current pope, Dulles was an enthusiastic supporter of Vatican II, and later a leading interpreter and defender of the council's teachings in some 19 books, and countless lectures and articles. Some orthodox Catholic theologians blame Dulles' work for providing cover for radicalism in the Vatican II aftermath. In his latter years, he has admitted that he tended "to exaggerate the novelty of the council's doctrine and the shortcomings of the preconciliar period." In the last decade, he has begun to take on dissenters. In a much-discussed 1997 article, Dulles agreed with Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law that the Catholic Theological Society of America was a "wasteland," and questioned whether they could any longer be called Catholics. Yet, puzzling to some, he has never joined the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, a rival organization faithful to Rome. "If he had, he would have been beaten up by the club," a knowledgeable source said yesterday. His scintillating defense of the pope's virtually infallible 1994 declaration that the Church cannot ordain women may have been the key to his winning a red hat. "He was elegant in that," said an archdiocesan source. "He's a Dulles. He's a Brahmin." Whatever the reason, New York can soon boast of two exceptional men as cardinals. Unlike Egan, Dulles is too old to vote for the next pope. But, health permitting, the venerable Dulles will surely be an important adviser at the next papal conclave. He will bring to that task not only his great intellect and generous spirit, but the wisdom of hard-won experience. e-mail: dreher@ nypost.com Also From: http://www.nypost.com/01222001/news/regionalnews/21981.htm FORDHAM PROF MAKES HISTORY Monday, January 22, 2001 By DAN MANGAN The Rev. Avery Dulles, a former agnostic turned Fordham University religion professor, yesterday became the first American theologian appointed a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. "I'm still not quite sure whether or not it's a dream," Dulles, 82, said at a press conference at Fordham's Law School in Manhattan. "I can't even think what an even greater honor would be." The Jesuit priest said he thought being named to the College of Cardinals was a message from Pope John Paul II to emphasize theology's importance to the Church, to encourage the Jesuit's Society of Jesus to pursue its theological mission, and to acknowledge North American scholarship's growing contribution to the Church. The son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Dulles is considered the dean of American Catholic theology, or the study of God and religious truth. He is the author of 21 books. In addition to being the first American theologian named a prince of the Church, Dulles also is the first Fordham faculty member to become a cardinal. "We are all in the Fordham University community . . . very proud of Avery Dulles for what he stands for in the American church," said the Rev. Joseph O'Hare, Fordham's president. Dulles will be made a cardinal on Feb. 21 in a ceremony at the Vatican in Rome with 36 other cardinal-designates, including his former student Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., who helped Dulles serve his first Mass in 1956. Unlike McCarrick and Archbishop Edward Egan of New York, who also was appointed yesterday, Dulles never was considered a likely cardinal. "This was a surprise," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, editor of America, a national Catholic weekly magazine. He noted Dulles' appointment was "an honor which brings no power." Because he is over 80, Dulles will be ineligible to vote for the next pope. As a lifelong academic, he also is unlikely to be granted authority over a diocese. Dulles was raised a Presbyterian, but had no religious belief when he went to Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1940. A U.S. Naval Reserve intelligence officer during World War II, and winner of France's Croix de Guerre, Dulles said he gradually converted to Catholicism through his studies and from exposure to the Church in Cambridge. "I sort of liked what I saw," said Dulles, whose ordination as priest made the front page of The New York Times because of his father's job as President Dwight Eisenhower's foreign-policy chief. Becoming a Catholic was "the best decision I ever made," he said. 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