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...against apartheid, calling for an end to the government's racist policies, opening his cathedral doors to all races, criticizing the Dutch Reformed Church for its failure to denounce apartheid-all of which stirred an uproar that did not subside until he moved to London in 1963 as Canon of Westminster Abbey...
...that the Roman Catholic Church has traditionally tried to prevent the spread of error and heresy is by the use of the imprimatur. According to canon law, any book by a Catholic layman or cleric dealing with faith or morals must be cleared by a diocesan censor and approved for publication by a bishop, normally shown by the Latin word imprimatur - meaning "Let it be printed." In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned...
Among the contributors were Canon Charles Moeller and Monsignor Pietro Pavan, both of them officials of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which sets the rules for censorship in the church...
...apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent conversations, the priest urged the murderer to turn him self in and refused him absolution until he did so. The youth would not. Bound by canon law to observe the church's tradition that nothing said in confession may ever be disclosed, the priest was helpless to protest publicly. Yet in the next four years, three more chil dren in the Langenberg area were abducted and killed in much the same manner as the first...
Underlying all literature and theology programs is the premise that insofar as a novel or play says anything significant about life, it has a religious meaning-which the theologian has as much right to explicate as a critic. Says Chicago's Scott: "The great canon of modern literature is a repository of an enormously profound insight into what it means to be human. It is through the study of literature that some of the most genuine and revealing points of contact between religion and art are likely to be found in our time...