Cardinal Avery Dulles Dies at 90
Written by David on December 12th, 2008The son of John Foster Dulles, he was a world-renowned theologian and the only American theologian every appointed to the College of Cardinals.
You don’t care? Well, here’s something you might care about…
True story: when I was at Fordham, some friends and I found a giant, Godzilla-like green foam dinosaur in the garbage and then hung it by a rope from the roof of Keating Hall so that it dangled immediately outside of Avery Dulles’s office window.
Do you not comprehend the significance of this prank? Think harder. Don’t stop until you’ve found the answer.
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Amen to that! My third-born carries Avery as a baptismal name because of Dulles. And I still think fondly of that dinosaur and how it bubbled in the girls’ showers of Queen’s Court!
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And Van Johnson died today too!