Winter 2002

Freedom, Transcendence, and the Good

Remembering Jerzy Ciesielski

Karol Wojtyła Pope John Paul II

“In the years of the Council, as we meditated on the apostolate of the laity, and as the constitution ‘On the Church in the Modern World’ was in gestation, I often thought of Jerzy.”

Holiness in the Everyday

Adrienne von Speyr

“It is a tribute to the Father that the Son is perfect in his humanity, because the Son thereby justifies the Father’s creation. But his perfection is an act and an achievement of his love for the Father and for human beings. His love is so great that it is able to embody the Father’s holiness in human form.”

The Pontifical Biblical Commission’s Document on Jews and Christians and Their Scriptures: Attempt at an Evaluation

Denis Farkasfalvy

“For all Church Fathers and for all medieval authors this was the main consequence of inspiration: the presence of a christological sense in all parts of the Bible.”

The Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s Document on “The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible”

Roch Kereszty

“We need to reaffirm the perennial conviction of the Church that she has no right to renounce her mission of universal evangelization.”