Inside Higher Education reports:
The Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops are reportedly investigating a book by a Georgetown University professor of theology, the Rev. Peter C. Phan, to determine whether the work is consistent with church doctrine regarding understandings of Roman Catholicism relative to other religions.
Dr. Chan is currently the Ignacio Ellacuría professor of Catholic social thought in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and was formerly president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (the first non-Anglo to be elected to that post.)
The inquiries into the Rev. Peter Phan reportedly focus on his views of Jesus as savior of the world and the value of non-Christian religions, among other things.
Ignacio Ellacuría practiced compassion through his intellectual contributions. It is clear, nevertheless, that practicing intelligence –even if he was prodigiously intelligent–, was not the most decisive aspect in his life. It was to apply his intelligence to liberating people from injustice, since he could not remain alien to so many people´s suffering. In this way he introduced liberation into the theoretical understanding of intelligence, whose formal structure he defined as “
to apprehend reality and to face it”.
Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuria and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador, by Theresa Whitfield (Temple University Press, 1995).
On November 16, 1989, on the campus of El Salvador’s University of Central America, six Jesuits and two women were murdered by members of the Salvadoran army, an army funded and trained by the United States..
