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The College, Littlemore
The place where John Henry Newman wrote The Development of Doctrine and was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 is located at Littlemore, just outside Oxford.
As many of you may know, it is administered as a spiritual centre and research library by the sisters of The Work (a worldwide community of consecrated men and women founded by Julia Verhaeghe in 1938).
Each year the sisters welcome thousands of visitors from many countries and traditions, who come in groups or as individuals, on tour or on retreat, for prayer, fellowship and study, drawn by love for Newman and the need to experience real Christian community and hospitality.
We have established a link between the Centre for Faith & Culture and Newman's College at Littlemore through one of our Advisers, Sr Brigitte Hoegemann, and would like to encourage anyone who feels drawn to study the writings or life of J.H. Newman to make an appointment to visit the Library in Littlemore, where they will be most welcome on virtually any day except Sunday.
Contact: The Work, Ambrose Cottage, 9 College Lane, Littlemore OX4 4LQ. (Tel. 01865-77-97-43.)
Renaissance Institute, Tokyo
Founded by Fr Peter Milward, SJ, at Sophia University in Tokyo in 1972, the Institute is concerned with various aspects of the European and English Renaissance in art and literature, with special attention to Shakespeare studies.
It has some 350 members, and sponsors publications in both Japanese and English, spring and autumn lectures, annual national conferences and occasional international meetings.
The Renaissance Institute also sponsors meetings of the Thomas More Society and the Japanese Chesterton Society (whose 15-volume series of Chesterton translations has sold more than 50,000 copies to date), and has close links with the Hopkins, Newman and C.S. Lewis societies of Japan.
In addition to a complete collection of 'English Recusant Literature' and an important Shakespeare library, the Institute has good collections of Chaucer, Chesterton, Belloc, Hopkins, Lewis, T.S. Eliot and many other authors.
For further information, contact the Chairman: Rev. Peter Milward SJ, Renaissance Centre, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan.
The International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family
The International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, established by the will of Pope John Paul II, is a Papal Institute for the study of Catholic theology as a unified whole. Within that whole, particular attention is devoted to the theme of marriage and the family.
The Institute grants four Canonical degrees by Papal right. Two of these are degrees in Theology and two in Theological Studies. The fundamental principles and curriculum of the Institute make it unique among Catholic schools of theology.
By design, a significant portion of the students are from the formerly communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
The Chancellor of the International Theological Institute, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, is noted, among other accomplishments, as general editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He is deeply involved in ecumenical work and has served as the personal emissary of Pope John Paul II to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The President of the Institute, Dr. Michael Waldstein, is by birth an Austrian but received much of his higher education in the United States: the B.A. from Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California; the Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Dallas; the S.S.L. (summa cum laude), Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; and the Th.D. in New Testament, Harvard Divinity School. He and his wife Susan have eight children.
The Institute is housed in the newly restored former Carthusian monastery Maria Thron, which lies in the village of Gaming, Austria, in the foothills of the Alps near the pilgrimage center Mariazell. It shares the monastery facilities with two separate and independent institutions: the Language and Catechetical Institute and the Austrian Program of Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.A.
The International Theological Institute is entrusted to the patronage of Our Lady, Queen of the Family.
The Society for Catholic Liturgy
The Society for Catholic Liturgy is a multidisciplinary association of Catholic scholars,, teachers, pastors, and ecclesiastical professionals founded in 1995 and committed to promoting the scholarly study and authentic renewal of the church's liturgy.
The Society for Catholic Liturgy is founded on the following attitudes and convictions, which it seeks to advance in its various activities and deliberations:
An affirmation of the decisions and initiatives of the church in the area of liturgy during and since the Second Vatican Council, as well as a commitment to the approved revised rites as the basis for any further development; A conviction of the crucial importance of the twentieth century liturgical movement and of the need for a renewed study and reappropriation of the insights of that movement;
A critical attitude regarding any liturgical 'restorationism' which rejects or is fundamentally suspicious of the reforms set in place by the Second Vatican Council and which seeks to return to the preconciliar liturgical order; A commitment to the church's trinitarian, christological, and ecclesiological faith, and particularly to its teaching in the area of sacramental doctrine; thus, a critical attitude towards a liturgical 'progressivism' inadequately informed by Catholic doctrinal tradition;
A renewed attention to Catholic devotional life and its relationship to the liturgy, so that the worship of God finds expression not only in official rites, but in all areas of life, especially the domestic and the familial; A recognition of the importance of systematic attention to the lay, congregational dimensions of Catholic worship; thus a vigilance about scholarly elitism and neoclericalism, which separate the liturgical life of the church from its popular base;
An awareness of the problems of the dilution of the liturgical practice and spirituality by cultural forces inimical to Catholic Christian tradition; thus, a critical assessment of the challenges involved in the cultural adaptation of liturgy; A deeper appreciation of the spiritual riches of the Eastern liturgical tradition and of the inspiration it can provide for the ongoing renewal of the Roman liturgy. A commitment to the virtues of prudence and charity in all deliberations and initiatives and an attitude of respect for the legitimate diversity of liturgical opinions and practices within the church.
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