Father Drew Christiansen SJ died on April 6 at the Jesuit community in Georgetown University. Christiansen was an early participant in Bridgefolk and an enthusiastic supporter of Mennonite-Catholic dialogue at many levels. In a 2003 article entitled “An Exchange of Gifts” that summarized various streams of that dialogue and recounted the influence of Mennonites on … Continue reading Bridgefolk mourns death of
Fr. Drew Christiansen, SJ
The Theology of Peace and the Ethics of War: Catholic Social Teaching and the Just War Tradition July 12, 2002 When I was first asked to make a presentation on Catholic Social Teaching and the Just War, I thought a twenty minute framework was very tight, but do-able. When I was later told I had … Continue reading Drew Christiansen, S. J.
Does Peacebuilding Need Peace Theology?A Mennonite-Catholic Dialogue October 19, 2019University of Notre Dame, Geddes HallNotre Dame IN, USA Organized by the Mennonite-Catholic Theological Colloquium, a project of BridgefolkHosted by theMcGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre DameCo-sponsored by theCatholic Peacebuilding Network The morality of war and peace is a perennial matter for ecumenical dialogue … Continue reading Notre Dame 2019
Reflection from Pax Christi USA, December 17, 2013 by Scott Wright, Pax Christi Metro D.C.-Baltimore Part of the title (in quotes) is borrowed from an essay by Stanley Hauerwas, a moral theologian who was deeply influenced by the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder, both of whom taught at Notre Dame.[1] The title is challenging, but … Continue reading Pax Christi and the gospel of peace – “Making the case for the abolition of war”
Papers from our 2007 conference at the University of Notre Dame on the Mennonite-Catholic dialogue report “Called Together to be Peacemakers” have now been published. Edited by Gerald Schlabach and Margaret Pfeil, Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation, is available directly from Liturgical Press or other booksellers. Copies will also be available at the … Continue reading Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation now available
Spirituality and Discipleship: Catholics and Mennonites Bridging the Divide Third Annual Bridgefolk Gathering July 29-August 1, 2004 Saint John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota Listening Committee Report The listening committee consisted of Susan Harrison and Brad Gregory. This report has three sections: an introduction, a review of what was said in the six main sessions of the … Continue reading Listening committee
How Are We “Called Together?” July 20-21, 2005 Keynote “Ecumenical Dialogue as a Ministry of Reconciliation” John A. Lapp, church historian, former Executive Secretary of Mennonite Central Committee: What Have We Learned? What Next? Mennonite Responses to the Final Report of the International Dialogue Nancy Heisey, Eastern Mennonite University and Mennonite World Conference Earl Zimmerman, … Continue reading Eastern Mennonite Seminary 2005
Two Questions for the Mennonite Catholic Dialogue Drew Christiansen, S. J. Editor in Chief, America I want to thank the planners for the invitation to contribute to this conference. Even before I was named editor of America I had informed Tom Michel, the coordinator of Jesuit interfaith activities in Rome, that I would skip the … Continue reading What Have We Learned? IV
Creating Peacemaking Communities for the New Millennium Catholics and Mennonites Bridging the Divide St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota July 12-14, 2002 Introduction Panel: “The Bridges that Have Brought Us Here.” Moderator: Abbot John Klassen, OSB Jeffrey Gros, FSC: Catholic-Mennonite Dialogue in Ecumenical Context Ivan Kauffman: International Mennonite-Catholic Dialogue Weldon Nisly: The Emergence of the “Bridgefolk” … Continue reading Bridgefolk 2002
