When Pope Francis spoke to the joint session of Congress in Washington in 2015 celebrating America’s moral prophets; he identified the monk and writer Thomas Merton as one of them. Pope Francis shares the comprehensive embrace of a culture of dialogue articulated by Merton so many decades before his own election as pope. Merton realized that he needed to evolve beyond healing the rifts in Christianity and to affirm and not to refute the truth in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, et cetera. And this is precisely what Pope Francis has done with his papacy. The Jesuit disruptor is a bridge to a greater and encompassing unity.
Monday, February 10 at 7:00 pm at St. Mark’s College at UBC
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Dr. Michael W. Higgins is President and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo (ON), Distinguished Professor of Catholic Thought Emeritus, Sacred Heart University (CT), Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought, University of St. Michael’s College (ON), Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto. He is also former President of St. Mark’s College.
