Orestes Brownson: Part Two
Notre Dame graduates may recall that this intellectual convert to the faith is interred at the South Bend campus. He became a Catholic along with his family when he was baptized in Boston, MA on October 20, 1844. For more than a quarter of a century, Brownson published The Review. The magazine was his effort to offer commentary on the important religious, moral and political issues of the day.
His thrust in the magazine was to stress what the Church taught. He was much involved in the Church's mission of renewal. Likewise he wrote that Catholics had a serious obligation to address the culture of the times.
The authors of the new Catechism note the reason for selecting this intellectual for inclusion in their work as worthy of our reading and awareness because this man's journey of faith "led him to acknowledge the self-revelation of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. While he struggled witht he mystery of God, he also pondered the mystery of eveil. He found the satisfying response in the gift of faith that brought him to Catholicism."
