He was secretly ordained a priest in East Germany in 1978. And even after the fall of communism Czech philosopher Tomas Halik found himself in a nation whose religious roots had been so shaken voices of faith still struggle to be heard in the public square.
Yet there was no sense of triumphalism when Halik was honored on the world stage in March. Instead, he turned to St. Augustine’s meditation on the three paths that lead most surely to God to describe his reaction to winning the 2014 Templeton Prize.
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