Culture for Don Bosco was the world of the young. He breathed young, just as we breathe air. He was ready to give his life for their welfare. On the 14 of May 1862, 22 members of the newly-founded Society of St. Francis de Sales completed their novitiate year and formally pronounced their triennial vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, while Don Bosco...Read More
Introduction From a comprehensive understanding of culture we move on to focus our attention on Inculturation, a word not easily met with except in post-Vatican II documents. A similar word “enculturation” was familiar with cultural anthropologists. Enculturation was introduced into theology by Pierre Charles. But it was Fr. J. Masson who first coined the phrase inculturated Catholicism in 1962. I remember him using...Read More
