Includes bibliographical references and index.

Saints in Catholic intellectual life -- An integrated life -- How God thinks -- A Christian intellectual in a post-Christian society -- A Christian intellectual and the moral life -- Education that integrates culture and religion -- Integrating the Second Vatican Council -- Recent popes and the renewal of Catholic intellectual life.

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"For Cardinal Francis George, the Catholic Church is not a movement, built around ideas, but a communion, built around relationships. In A Godly Humanism, he shares his understanding of the Church in lively, compelling prose, presenting a way to understand and appreciate the relationships of God to human beings and of human beings to one another. These loving relationships are continually made present to us in and through the Church, from the time of Jesus' first disciples down to our own day. We are introduced to how the spiritual and intellectual life of Christians, aided in every generation by the Holy Spirit working through the Apostles and their successors, resist the danger of splitting apart from one another. Though they take different outward forms at different times, both wisdom and holiness are made possible for every Christian of every station of life. Sign-posting his conversation by the milestones of his own spiritual and intellectual journey, Cardinal George invites us to view the Church and her history in ways that go beyond the categories of politics through which we find merely human initiative, contrivance, and adjustment and rather to see the initiative as God's first and foremost."--Jacket.