Daniel O’Leary An astonishing secret
Lockdown brought me a blessing through engaging with this second to last book of the late Fr Daniel O’Leary which had been awaiting my attention for a year. Reading the book became a timely blessing impacting my thinking and praying and hopefully my action. In a way there was nothing new in it, simply a reminder to see God in all things and all things in God. In another way it was full of newness, the perpetual newness of Jesus captured in the writings of Teilhard de Chardin as a bridge from Christianity towards the progress and evolution of the world. Yes, the book rattled my pride as orthodox Christian with calls for dismissing original sin, dualism in historic faith and over prioritising sexual ethics. Yet I felt compelled by its thesis of God’s invincible love being allied to the evolution of the world today. Daniel O’Leary has infectious magnanimity so this traditionalist was disarmed by his appeal, putting some issues on hold whilst reading it. Such putting on hold is aided by th