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Review "At last, someone is redeeming, renewing, and recovering the lovely and true meaning of 'catholic.' This could change your life--and it should!" --Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation Albuquerque, New Mexico "Examines scientific thought through the lens of spirituality and provides a path for spiritual seekers that weaves together science and faith, simultaneously providing a vision for a brighter future….Upon soaking up Delio's message, readers will find that 'truth shines out' from this book." --Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction "Delio provides a tantalizing taste of a renewed framing of the story of Jesus around its inner principle, catholicity, which can set our hearts on fire again, and provide the power to reconnect our divided world. This book (as well as those forthcoming in the series) should be in every library that serves seekers of all kinds: high schools, colleges, universities, and especially schools of theology and seminaries. It is also an excellent resource for adult formation and discussion groups." --Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF, in Catholic Library World Product Description Ilia Delio introduces a new word, catholicity, which is destined to become as discussed and familiar in this century as the word Catholic was in the 2nd century. A new paradigm for being Catholic: catholicity, a conscious awareness of how everything - the sun, moon, starts, Kepler, Saturn, maple trees, muddy rivers, amoeba, bacteria and all people of the earth - for a whole. Catholicity is a dynamic, spiritual quality of being Catholic that literally means ""becoming whole."" It is an inner principle which first burst forth in the life of Jesus and has the power to reconnect all the dimensions of life: spirituality, religion, the new sciences, culture, and society. Catholicity is not an apologetics but an emerging unitive spirituality that is being expressed by Pope Francis and is manifested in the lives of sincere seekers everywhere. It is animating religion in a new direction and infusing key aspects of spirituality with the new sciences, and every aspect of society and culture. Catholicity is a spirit of love, a love of the Spirit, which resists ideology and attracts new followers. ""Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom"" (2 Cor 3:17). Catholicity makes all things new. ""If any be in Christ he is a new creature. The old way of living disappears. A new Way of living comes into existence"" (2 Cor 5:17) About the Author Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. A native of Newark, NJ, she earned doctorates in pharmacology from the New Jersey Medical School/School of Biomedical Sciences and in historical theology from Fordham University, NY, and is the recipient of a notable Templeton Course in Science and Religion award. Delio is the author of seventeen books including The Unbearable Wholeness of Being and Making All Things New and she lectures internationally on topics including evolution, artificial intelligence, consciousness, and religion.