Cardinal Pell -
November 3rd 2007 03:25
Well what do you know, His Eminence is about to release a book, to be launched on November 16th, called "God and Caesar: selected essays on Religion, Politics and Society". Plagiarism, a literary homage or sheer coincidence? Whatever. I intend to make the google most of it.
The book is edited by Michael Casey, the Cardinal's private secretary. Michael was at Monash University when I was Chaplain in 1988. Apart from helping me to run the chaplaincy series of lectures on Sollicitudo Rei Socialis ( in which the then Bishop Pell featured) he also ran the Tom Woolfe Society. His fortes are sociology and Nietzsche. There are passages in the book which definitely show the fine italinate hand of this skilled editor as well as that of Professor Hayden Ramsay, the Cardinal's philosopher. Professor Ramsay's fortes are Thomas Aquinas and having a really great accent.
I have only just made a perfunctory reading. There are already lacunae in the argumentation that I have spotted, especially on the matter of conscience and on the Cardinal's "cultural policy" where he quotes Dr Tracey Rowland without sufficient comprehension of the implications of her thoughts. I think an extended critique is in order - a stern but fair one as you might expect on the original "God and Caesar".
The book is edited by Michael Casey, the Cardinal's private secretary. Michael was at Monash University when I was Chaplain in 1988. Apart from helping me to run the chaplaincy series of lectures on Sollicitudo Rei Socialis ( in which the then Bishop Pell featured) he also ran the Tom Woolfe Society. His fortes are sociology and Nietzsche. There are passages in the book which definitely show the fine italinate hand of this skilled editor as well as that of Professor Hayden Ramsay, the Cardinal's philosopher. Professor Ramsay's fortes are Thomas Aquinas and having a really great accent.
I have only just made a perfunctory reading. There are already lacunae in the argumentation that I have spotted, especially on the matter of conscience and on the Cardinal's "cultural policy" where he quotes Dr Tracey Rowland without sufficient comprehension of the implications of her thoughts. I think an extended critique is in order - a stern but fair one as you might expect on the original "God and Caesar".
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