So I offer – – tentatively – – as patron saint of the
project of a new apologetics for the new millennium Blessed Frederic Ozanam,
mid-19th century professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and founder
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society to serve the poor. (Archbishop William Levada – 3/2002)An excerpt from a March 5, 2002 talk given by Archbishop William J. Levada:
“And while I turn to the saints, and the witness of their response to the
universal call to holiness, as particularly germane to the task of the new
apologetics, I would be the first to admit that not every saint was an
apologist. But I would be hard pressed to find a saint with a university
degree who was not! So I offer – – tentatively – – as patron saint of the
project of a new apologetics for the new millennium Blessed Frederic Ozanam,
mid-19th century professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and founder
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society to serve the poor. Through his
intercession, may the combination of such gifts of intellectual clarity and
witness of charity be the leaven for the new evangelization, to lead us into
the new millennium always ‘ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks
[us] for the reason for [our] hope.’
See: http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/apologetics.html
