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The
Passionist
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number 29 1995
The
Passionist
Robert Joerger, C.P.
Michael J. Stengel, C.P.
Publishers
Jo^Yi J. O'Brien, C.P.
Editor
ArdisCloutier, O.S.F.
MalcolmCornwell, C.P.
John T. Render, C.P.
Paul Wadell, C.P.
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1995—number 29
THE PASSIONIST is published by .Holy Cross and St. Paul of the
Cross Provinces of the Congregation of the Passion. It is a private
publication issued primarily for members of the Congregation of the
Passion. Manuscriptsmaybesentto: JohnJ. O'Brien,C.P., 1175Concord
MA
Turnpike,Arlington, 02174, U.S.A.
PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
1995~fifty years since the end of World War II, the
liberation ofJewish peoples and others in the death camps,
the commencement of the United Nations. 1995~thirty
years since the end ofVatican II, the Council which shaped
ecclesiology, worship, revelation, and our understanding of
the world, missiology, inculturation. 1995'-only five years
until the bi-millennium and the beginnings ofChristianity's
third millennium. 1995~the final years of a century of new
beginnings in technology, space exploration, medical inno-
vation; and, on the contrary, two world wars and constant
regional wars, geo- and eco-cidal threat, the dropping of
nuclear bombs.
1995-a significant year for North American Passionists.
In January Barnabas Ahern died after a long and debilitat-
ing illness. Although a native of Holy Cross Province,
Barnabas shaped the minds and hearts of people on an
international scale. He was a jeweler of words, a com-
mentator on the Word. He influenced Vatican II and its
understanding of revelation. So also Cuthbert O'Gara, a
native Canadian and member of Saint Paul of the Cross
Province, went to Vatican II as a missionary bishop. A little
over sixty years ago he became bishop. In this issue Robert
Carbonneau writes on Bishop Cuthbert's missionary career
in China and his concerns when he returned to his Province
after expulsion from China.
Almost seventy-five years ago the Passionists partici-
pated in new beginnings in the retreat movement. Gerald
Laba reflects on how The Sign magazine presented the lay
retreat movement in the 1920s. The emphasis in these early
days was not only on personal piety, but also on public
extirpation of social injustice. Retreat preachers and
retreatants linked the inner and outer worlds. Laba's com-
ments offer salient questions for those involved in retreat
ministrytoday. How dowe link personal spirituality and the
ministries ofjustice and public service?
Thirty years ago Vatican II closed. Serious scholars are
now plumbing the deeper and far reaching implications of
the Council's ecclesiology and agenda for a world church.
John Francis Kobler is one such scholar. In this issue he
offers not only intellectual ideas, but also the process he
experienced so that the Spirit-filled agenda might become a
reality for twenty-first century humanity.
1995'-the end of the Lukan gospel readings in this litur-
gical year. Malcolm Cornwell reflects on the compassion of
Jesus in the Lukan material. His meditative musings round
out this issue of The Passionist.
John J. O'Brien
Editor
Contents
Bishop Cuthbert O'Gara,
Twentieth-Century Missionary
in Hunan, China
Robert Carbonneau
Renewing Person and Society
The Lay Retreat Movement
as Presented in The Sign: 1921-1930
Gerald Laba 21
The Esthetics ofLumen Gentium
and Iconographical Theology
John Francis Kobler 31
Jesus' Compassion for Sinners
in the Gospel of Luke
Malcolm Cornwell 61