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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Henri de Lubac, SJ: From Censored to Sainthood? with Rev. Dr. Jordan Hillebert
Description: This past April, French bishops voted to open the sainthood cause of 20th century Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac. If you had a time machine and went back to the 1950s and told Fr. de Lubac this news, he probably wouldn’t believe you. In those years, the church was so nervous about de Lubac’s scholarship that he was prevented from teaching theology and his books were removed from Jesuit libraries. He experienced a rehabilitation within his own lifetime and was even named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1983.
Host Mike Jordan Laskey has heard de Lubac’s name...