1. SBNR II

3. “If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. When I was an atheist I had to try to persuade myself that most of the human race have always been wrong about the question that mattered to them most; when I became a Christian I was able to take a more liberal view. But, of course, being a Christian does mean thinking that where Christianity differs from other religions, Christianity is right and they are wrong.”

5. “This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Savior, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as "the pillar and mainstay of the truth". This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure.” LG 8

6. Religion Spirituality Traditional Always new Communal Relational
Objective and External
Subjective and Internal
Traditional
Always new
Communal
Relational
Ritual
Intimate
Moral
Enlightening

8. “We may [reverently] divide religions, as we do soups, into ‘thick’ and ‘clear’. By Thick I mean those which have ecstasies and mysteries and local attachments: Africa is full of Thick religions. By Clear I mean those which are philosophical, ethical and universalizing: Stoicism, Buddhism, are Clear religions. Now if there is a true religion it must be both Thick and Clear: for the true God must have made both the child and the man, both the savage and the citizen, both the head and the belly. (…) Christianity (…) takes a convert from central Africa and tells him to obey an enlightened universalist ethic: it takes a twentieth-century academic prig like me and tells me to go fasting to a Mystery, to drink the blood of the Lord. The savage convert has to be Clear: I have to be Thick. That is how one knows one has come to the real religion” C.S. Lewis – God in the Dock

9. Alpha Course Confessions Summer missions Social events Works of Mercy
Formation nights
Bible Studies for Athletes and Greeks
Social events
Retreats for Freshmen
Personal mentoring
Bible Studies for upperclassmen
Confessions
Camping trips
Masses at the Newman Center
Summer missions
Holy Hours
Theology on Tap
Works of Mercy