Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete
| Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, formerly a physicist and a professor of theology at St. Joseph's Seminary in New York, also known as "The Mystic Priest." Add another word: delightful. Albacete's works have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. He is also the author of God At the Ritz. Please allow me to make one observation. I hosted a radio talk show for an affiliate of ABC-Talk for years. In my opinion, the person doing the interview here is one of the worst I've ever seen at the craft. He wanders along some pointless and utterly boring Dawinian line-of-thought until you want to throw a pillow at the screen. If you find that part to be as dreary as I did (and I'm sure Albacete did) then at 46:46 the discussion suddenly takes a welcome turn into questions of faith, tolerance, inclusiveness and such that continues till the end. If I had a way to edit to begin at that point, believe me, I'd have done it! So, catch a bit of the introduction, then move the slider over till you can start up at 46:46 and watch till the end. If you like, feel free to go back and pick up the rest!
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I think that God works through us, through our reasons, our hearts and our ability. That is how the Bible is of divine inspiration, but it is not dictated in any way. It's like a scrapbook, accounts here and there. What do they have in common? The have in common the history, the experience of particular concrete people, what we call in the Old Testament is one people and it's history. History of what? Of it's understanding of and reaction to the Mystery.