Cardinal Avery Dulles

Cardinal Avery Dulles is eighty-seven years old. He was born in Auburn, New York on August 24, 1918. He graduated from Harvard College in 1940 and attended Harvard Law School. He then spent a year and a half there before leaving to serve in the United States Navy where he eventually became a lieutenant. He was ordained in 1956 and became a Cardinal on February 21, 2001. He is an internationally known lecturer and he has written over 700 articles on various theological topics.

On October 12, 2005 Cardinal Dulles gave a lecture at Boston College. The topic was the handing down of the faith. Cardinal Dulles basically acknowledged the importance of handing down the Catholic faith to the next generation. He spoke about how our Catholic religion should be the same Catholic religion people followed fifty years ago. Even when the people, culture, and everything surrounding it changes, the core truth of catholicism should never change.