tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post1728951806600789392..comments2024-03-23T12:05:23.537-05:00Comments on The Wild Reed: What Does It Mean to Be a Catholic University?Michael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-16319620384060138362007-11-09T22:00:00.000-06:002007-11-09T22:00:00.000-06:00Thanks for the thorough article on Catholic identi...Thanks for the thorough article on Catholic identity in a university, Michael.<BR/><BR/>Patrick A. Heelan, S.J. has an analysis of John Paul II's encyclical <EM>Fides et Ratio</EM>. His description of how truth is arrived at is apropos of your discussion:<BR/> <BR/><EM>"How do faith and justice, truth and responsible freedom apply to the academy? I hope you would draw with me the following conclusion. Justice and responsible freedom within and beyond the academy are best served both by students and teachers in recognizing that the process of learning truth is embodied, dialogical, evolutionary, emergent, metaphorical, imaginative, lifelong, and committed to the entanglement of goodness and truth. These, perhaps, rather than in scholastic metaphysics, are the conditions under which John Paul in his complementary discourses thinks we would be most open to the discovery of Christ and God in the 'everyday things of this world.'"</EM>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com