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...papacy makes for strange dinner companions: Word this week that Pope Benedict XVI dined for two hours with dissident theologian Hans K?ng may be difficult for many conservative Catholics to digest. K?ng, who had long been denied his request for an audience with John Paul II, is widely viewed as a kind of "anti-Ratzinger" because of the sharp contrast between his liberal views on doctrine and those of the fellow German theologian who would eventually become pope. In fact, then-Cardinal Ratzinger had a role in stripping K?ng of the right to teach Catholic theology in 1979, because...
...Benedict, 78, open his doors to K?ng ? The first answer may be as simple as the desire to catch up with an old friend and colleague: the two men had taught together at the University of T?bingen, and both had served as theological advisers during the Second Vatican Council. K?ng , 77, was quoted in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Tuesday as saying the Saturday dinner meeting at the papal summer residence in Castel Gondolfo was ?a reciprocal joy to see each other after so many years.? A Vatican statement said that the pair's standing doctrinal disputes were...
Thankfully, Dean Kidd has already said that plans are “at the beginning of the ground floor of a very open process.” Better it stays that way. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has said that “the assignment of student space” is a “frontburner issue.” Gross can back up his words by refraining from hiring a director to oversee a women’s center and instead hiring a director to consolidate and better apportion existing student space...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 was also dunked, but didn’t stay in the wet seat for as long as other victims, who sat for a full 15 minutes. “But it was quality time,” Gross said...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 declined to comment on the exact cost of the project, but said that it would require “several million dollars...