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Letters to the Editor
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SUNIVERSITY NEWS
Volume XXXVI, Number VII
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
November 8, 2006
John Allen Addresses
Relationship Between
Islam, Catholicism
Monica Klem
NEWS EDITOR
ohn L. Allen, Vatican
correspondent and author,
delivered the annual Landregan
lecture tfe a packed audience at
the University of Dallas' Church
of the Incarnation on Saturday
Ttv
John Allen delivers his annual Landragan speech at
UD's Church of the Incarnation last Saturday.
night.
Allen began his lecture, entitled
"The Cross and the Crescent:
The Relationship between the
Church and Islam under Benedict
XVI," with a series of stories
about former pope John Paul
II's interactions with die Muslim
world.
His first
story related
the enthusiastic
and almost
affectionate
reception of John
Paul II during
his trip to Syria
to meet with the
Grand Mufti.
The second
Story was about
the surprising
turnout of
Muslim youth to
the Papal Mass, during the Pope's
visit to Kazakhstan four days
after September 11. Allen said
that upon asking many of the
yOung men about their motivation
for attending the Mass, they
predominantly answered that they
had seen the pontiff's visit to the
Syrian mosque, and wanted to
reach back to him.
The third story Allen told
concerned his visit to Strathmore
University, a university associated
with Opus Dei in Kenya, where
he encountered three young men
who were converting from Islam
to Catholicism. Allan described
being begged by one of the young
men not to reveal his identity
for fear that he and his family
could be put to death by Islamic
extremists if his conversion were
to become public. However, Allen
See ALLEN,Page 3
Italian
program
unveils
scholarship
| Mary Powers
| NEWS EDITOR
The Italian Language
Program at UD recently
received a grant from
Dr. Allan Saxe, a Political Science
professor at l.'TA. Dr. Saxe
has given many grants to other-
Cultural Programs across the
country such as Noire Dame
and various
Ivy League
schools. Dr.
Sa.xe is a
connoisseur
of Italian Art
and culture
and was very
impressed by
the small UD
Italian Program.
Professoressa Forte and
Professoressa Zocchi were
Dr. Allan Saxe
See M L, Page 4
Dinner and Discourse:
Purgatory explained
I Alan Charnock
| AD REP
Dinner and Discourse
this past week was
titled "Purgatory:
The Christian Answer to
Reincarnation.*' This particular-
talk fell on an auspicious d.uv:
October 31, All Souls' Day. The
weight of the day lent a certain
atmosphere to the discussion
— a comparison and contrast of
purgatory and reincarnation.
After a dinner of salad and pasta
Lather Philip Powell introduced
Brother David Seid, who gave the.
30 minute talk on purgatory.
Brother Seid began by saying
that "purgatory is my favorite
doctrine of the. Catholic Church,"
and then quickly explained what
Catholics mean by purgatory.
Because every wrong committed
may not be corrected in this
life, an individual may die with
"unfinished business" says
Brother Seid, and it is through
the grace of God that He has
established an "anteroom" to
heaven in which souls who are
not ready for paradise may purify
themselves.
.Brother Seid, a Buddhist and
follower of Confucius'teachings,
related how die East believes in
"unfinished business" as well,
but believes that reincarnation is
the means of completing what
is left undone. He illustrated
how karmic justice is apparent
to both the Bast and the West,
but while reincarnation requires
many thousands of lifetimes
before reaching nirvana, God's
purgatory is one-stop purification
for die faidiful — a "second chance
"Purgatory is the Christian
answer to reincarnation."
at heaven for those not quite rid
of dieir self love," Brodier Seid
made it clear that while many
think of purgatory as a place of
punishment, it is rather a gift of
purification and spiritual growdi.
See DIN,Page 4
Dr. Elizabeth McCutcheon received the Thomas More Life-
time Achievement Award at the conference last weekend.
Thomas More
Conference held at UD
Monica Klem
NEWS EDITOR
The University of Dallas
hosted the annual conference
of the Center for Thomas More
Studies last weekend.
The conference was titled
"Thomas More on the Relation
Of Law and Politics: The History
of KingRichard the Third or Is Law
Powerless Before Tyranny?"
Dr. George Logan of Queen's
University spoke about "More
on Tyranny," in die first lecture
of the conference, using both
More's Utopia and his History of
King Richard the Third to draw his
conclusions.
Logan said that the topic of
tyranny is frequent in More's
work, and cited More's friend
and associate Erasmus as saying
See MORE,Page 3
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