Gerhard Lohfink, who died last week in his native Germany at the age of 89, leaves behind an impressive legacy of faith-informed scholarship on the New Testament and Christian discipleship.
“It is not easy to be a Catholic, and it is not easy to be a writer. To be a Catholic writer is doubly difficult,” wrote Jacques Maritain, who nevertheless became one of the most influential 20th-century Catholic writers on either side of the Atlantic.
Near the end of “The Edge of Sadness,” Father Hugh Kennedy tells old Charlie Carmody that hatred “is a sin, Mr. Carmody. A grave sin: a sin against charity.”