Friday, 12/1/17
In class yesterday I mentioned
two French priests , who as scholars had a great influence on the Catholic Church
in the last century; and one of the students asked who they were, so let me tell
you.
During World War One, Henri
de Lubac fought in the trenches, saving Paris from the Kaiser's troops; but in the last year of that war he received a
bullet to his skull, bringing on many periods of misery in later life.
Yves Congar's town was
captured by the Kaiser's troops. who slaughtered his father. Yves joined in his
town's Protestant boys in resisting the Germans' and i t gave him a
life-long respect for all baptized Christians
. After that war , Henri de Lubac became a Jesuit, while Yves Congar became a Dominican
priest.
In World War II Father Yves Congar
spent five years in a Nazi prison camp,
while Lubac dodged the Gestapo as he published an underground newspaper, saving
Jews from being deported
In 1950, Rome, finding their views too fresh, banned each of them
from teaching; but in 1958 Pope John XXIII named them special consultants to
Vatican II; then the Church named both of them cardinals for their great contributions
to Vatican II.
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