Despite all the jabbering about “diversity” and “inclusivity” in the Church and world, Catholics in the United States (and especially Catholic theologians) have become somewhat insular and provincial. When I began studying theology in the 1970s and 1980s, translations of works by European theologians were commonplace and common stock of Catholic publishers. Today, they rarely appear, while most Catholic publishers trade either in gauzy spirituality pixie dust or some version of “do-it-yourself” self-improvement with a splash of holy water.
I make these observations in view of two stories I picked up from Europe recently that did not get much U.S. circulation, though they should have.
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