{"id":2412,"date":"2019-03-14T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2019-03-14T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:14:44","slug":"fiftieth-anniversary-of-augustin-cardinal-bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/fiftieth-anniversary-of-augustin-cardinal-bea\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiftieth Anniversary of Augustin Cardinal Bea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/augustin_bea-229x300.png\" alt=\"At an age when many people have long since retired, Augustin Bea found himself thrust into the heart of some of the most controversial debates in modern Catholic history\u00e2\u0080\u0094and became one of the quiet heroes of modern Jewish-Catholic relations.\" \/>The Church understands the day of a person\u2019s death to be the birthdate of a person\u2019s entry into life eternal. Thus the anniversary of death is an occasion for reflecting with gratitude for a person\u2019s life, with review of the person\u2019s accomplishments in the service of God and neighbor. Of course, no one here below is privy to the details of a person\u2019s eternal destiny, but we assess the person\u2019s life by the fruit that it produced. Thus the occasion of a conference to commemorate the work of Augustin Cardinal Bea (1881-1968) drew attention to his immense contributions to the progress of the Second Vatican Council in the areas of Christian ecumenism and interreligious relations.<\/p>\n<p>On February 28, 2019 Pope Francis addressed the participants in the meeting that commemorated the major anniversary of Cardinal Bea\u2019s death. For the text of the Pope\u2019s address, visit the Vatican&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2019\/02\/28\/190228a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and for the events being held in Cardinal Bea\u2019s honor, visit the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies of the Gregorian University <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unigre.it\/struttura_didattica\/Judaic_studies\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a focus on Catholic-Jewish dialogue, the Pope encouraged the widening of this dialogue for local parishes and synagogues to collaborate \u201cin service of those in need and by promoting paths of peace and dialogue with all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church understands the day of a person\u2019s death to be the birthdate of a person\u2019s entry into life eternal. Thus the anniversary of death is an occasion for reflecting with gratitude for a person\u2019s life, with review of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/fiftieth-anniversary-of-augustin-cardinal-bea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}