{"id":24989,"date":"2009-10-10T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/wayne-hellman-the-pope\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T07:35:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T11:35:20","slug":"wayne-hellman-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/wayne-hellman-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Hellman &#038; the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/WHellmann%20%26%20Pope%20Benedict.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WHellmann &amp; Pope Benedict.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/WHellmann &amp; Pope Benedict-thumb-300x188-4761.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>In the mid-1990s when I was in formation at Bellarmine House and a student in St Louis, Missouri, I made the acquaintance of Conventual Franciscan Father Wayne Hellman. Father Wayne was a professor of Theology at Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO. I think he was also the Friar Guardian of the local Conventual Franciscan House (St Bonaventure&#8217;s Friary) and one of the nation&#8217;s experts in Saint Bonaventure&#8217;s theology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wayne was frequently perceived as a zaney Franciscan professor but an incredibly bright and sensitive man, one that you can easily approach. I enjoyed his company. Until reading about his encounter with the young Joseph Ratzinger, didn&#8217;t I realize the &nbsp;interest and scope of theological formation and how he started off. The pedigree of theologians is always of interest to me because I am interested in history and trajectory.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My friend David Miros sent me and a few others a&nbsp;striking story published in the Saint Louis University News of Father Wayne&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slu.edu\/x32326.xml\">recent encounter with the Holy Father<\/a>. Why is this striking to me and why should you read the story? Because it is a realization how the Holy Spirit works at the lowest and yet the most human of levels: the heart.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1990s when I was in formation at Bellarmine House and a student in St Louis, Missouri, I made the acquaintance of Conventual Franciscan Father Wayne Hellman. Father Wayne was a professor of Theology at Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO. I think he was also the Friar Guardian of the local Conventual Franciscan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/wayne-hellman-the-pope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wayne Hellman &#038; the Pope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,7],"tags":[1773,32081,2207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}