Communio : International Catholic Review - English Edition

Edited by Dr. David L. Schindler, Dean and Gagnon Professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family in Washington, DC, the North American "Communio" is part of an international federation of (15) Communio magazines published in various languages around the world.

In 1972, Communio was begun by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Joseph Ratzinger, among others. And Communio offers academic theological articles on the mysteries of faith, which take inspiration from the whole tradition of the Church, from the Fathers of the Church to the literary and theological authors of twentieth-century Ressourcement (return to the sources).

In each of the quarterly issues, one can typically find about ten articles of academic theology coverting the full range from soteriology, Christology, Mariology, ecclesiology, eschatology, Scriptural approaches, ecumenism, etc. These articles feature original work and translations of articles from Communio journals from other countries. In addition, the occaisional "Retrieving the Tradition" and "Spirit and History" sections feature reprints and new translations from the tradition of the Church: from Maximus the Confessor to Dorothy Day.

Do I read and understand each article? No. I am just an amateur theologian. I subscribe to Communio because each issue contains one or more article that proposes new ways to broaden and deepen my understanding of the faith.

I majored in Theology, and feel strongly that this is the most intellectually and spiritually challenging magazine I have ever read. I know of no others in the same class. If you want to be challenged to really think, don't miss out on this one!

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This magazine was founded, as I understand it, by the likes of Ratzinger and von Balthasar. It comes out every three months and it takes me that long to digest it thoroughly. I have alwavs kept my old copies and gone back to them over and over. My appreciation for St. John the Baptist [almost unknown in popular piety, but notice that he comes right after the Blessed Virgin in the Litany of Saints] goes back to a paper by Lawrence Goodall in COMMUNIO. I believe that it has ties to the Communion and Liberation movement. It has also had an article from Angelo Scola when he was a small-town bishop.

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