Documents That (Still) Matter #4

About The Document

We will read Lumen gentium. In 1964, the Second Vatican Council taught that the council fathers wanted to “bring the light of Christ to all men, a light brightly visible on the countenance of the Church” (Lumen Gentium, No. 1).

This is how they started to speak about the Church, so this is where we, as members of the Church, need to start to speak about it as well. If we start with the scandals or the politics, then we are starting with the flaws, human flaws, and we are not allowing ourselves to stand in awe of what Christ (not sinful human beings) is doing in the Church. If we look prayerfully at the right places in the Church, we shall see Christ!

 

Our Presenter: Dr. Joan Kelly

Dr. Joan Kelly teaches in the Catholic Studies Department at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph College in West Hartford (now the University of Saint Joseph), received a master’s degree in Theology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a doctorate from the Graduate Theological Foundation at Notre Dame in Indiana. Dr. Kelly also teaches in the Diocese of Bridgeport’s deacon formation program and until recently was engaged with the theological formation of the seminarians at St John Fisher Seminary in Stamford. She received the Papal Cross from Pope John Paul II in recognition of her commitment to the teaching mission of the Church.

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