Who's in Charge Here?: The Church, Society and Obedience| Fr. Joseph Fox, OP
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🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This lecture was held at St. Gretrude's parish on October 30th, 2018. It was cosponsored by the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati and the Thomistic Institute. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/
About the event:
The 1960s were a time of anti-establishment rebellion, and the rejection of existing authorities and structures. This turbulent time left its mark on the Church, for priests and religious and for the lay faithful alike. How have the structures of the Church responded to the demands of a skeptical time?
Speaker bio:
Fr. Joseph Fox, a member of the Order of Preachers in vows since 1969, was ordained a priest in 1974. He has a licentiate degree in theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, a licentiate degree in canon law from the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.
Fr. Fox served in a variety of positions during his 22 years in Rome including that of staff official of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, bureau chief of the personnel office of the Holy See, teaching in the faculties of theology and canon law at the Angelicum, economic administrator of the Convitto San Tommaso and of the Dominican priory at the Angelicum, and as the director of pastoral formation at the Pontifical North American College.
He is currently serving as Vicar of Canonical Services for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
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| 0:00.0 | Who's in charge here? |
| 0:02.0 | The Church, Society, and Obedience. |
| 0:05.5 | But there's at least common between those two titles as the Individual Society and the Church. |
| 0:12.2 | Sorry, I'm going to go for that, huh? |
| 0:14.7 | And it was also encouraging, as I watched you coming in, that there are several of you |
| 0:19.3 | who've had some personal experience like I have of |
| 0:23.6 | 1968. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah? |
| 0:26.6 | So just in case that you may like me enjoy a little bit of down memory lane what happened in 68. |
| 0:39.3 | I just want to go through a list of things because it's really quite extraordinary what was happening in that year. |
| 0:46.3 | Maybe they've done this in the other talks, I don't know. |
| 0:49.3 | But January 23rd, North Korea sees the U.S. Navy intelligence ship in the Sea of Japan, if you remember that event. |
| 0:56.9 | We just have this ongoing relationship with North Korea, no? |
| 1:01.0 | January 30th was the Vietnam Tet offensive, the turning point in the Vietnam War. |
| 1:06.6 | And all of that that had to do with, huh? |
| 1:10.8 | January 5th began the Prague Spring |
| 1:14.7 | until the attempt of the Czechoslovakians |
| 1:18.4 | to get out under this way, |
| 1:21.5 | under the control of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:26.3 | March 16th, the Mili Massacre in Vietnam, 500 Vietnamese civilians by U.S. |
| 1:34.0 | Army soldiers. April the 4th, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, |
| 1:43.7 | not to mention all of the unrest, the disturbances |
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