“The Wasteland” demonstrates that T.S. Eliot did not embrace the death and decay of the world of the poem, but rather was on his journey out from it to the glory of resurrection.
Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ at 101: A guided glimpse of the abyss
Vatican II’s openness is needed in today’s church, cardinal tells Curia
In a reflection for Lent 2023, the cardinal said March 3 that the Second Vatican Council was a “prophetic initiative” to respond to the church’s refusal to engage with modern society in the 19th and 20th centuries and a model for the church’s renewal.