Friendship, Modernity, and Encounter

Friends’ books available for pre-ordering, both of which I’d commend. To be exact, the translator of the second is my friend, the author having died in 1989.

First, Wesley Hill’s Spiritual Friendship.

Second, Augusto Del Noce’s The Crisis of Modernity, translated by Carlo Lancelotti.

Carlo is one of the leaders of Communion and Liberation in New York City. CL is again sponsoring the New York Encounter this coming January. It runs from the evening of January 16th with opening remarks from Cardinal Dolan through a closing concert on Sunday evening. Among the speakers I especially commend are the Irish musician and journalist John  Waters, who gave a great talk two years ago, Jean Vanier, and the Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith. I plan to be there.