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...tempted to advertise a grudge match between the Holy Father and the high priest of natural selection. But look again. Our title promises the Pope AND Darwin, not the Pope VS. Darwin. Benedict XVI will indeed be hosting a scholarly powwow this weekend at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, to debate evolution and creation. But don't expect the Catholic Church to start disputing Darwin's basic findings, which Pope John Paul II in 1996 called "more than a hypothesis." Moreover, advocates of the teaching in U.S. schools of intelligent design - which holds that nature...
...entered the fray personally, when he used the words "intelligent project" to describe the universe's creation. Not surprisingly Sch?nborn, who was a star student in the early 1970s of then professor of theology Father Joseph Ratzinger, will give the equivalent of the keynote address this weekend at the Castel Gandolfo get-together...
...Beyond any eventual Vatican document specifically on evolution, the debate over Darwin may arise in the Church's ongoing battle on bioethics. In a speech last week at a Catholic conference in Rimini, Italy - a sort of public warmup for the high-stakes private lecture he will give at Castel Gandolfo - Sch?nborn condemned what he called "scientism," or the failure of those in the scientific community to recognize that their findings can't provide all the answers...
...than the drunken depression of an O’Neil play, the pretention of the Danish film “The Celebration,” or the frustrating bathos of “The Family Stone”-esque American amusements. The movie’s anchor is Lou Castel as the murderous epileptic. It’s a tough role, requiring complete intensity and detachment simultaneously; he makes the audience love and hate him without being able to lost sight of him. His character has a picture of a young Marlon Brando in his room; it?...
...Paul. Even in the first weeks, it was clear that he was not a chilly and unbending bureaucrat, but a basically gentle man with excellent listening skills and a gift with words. He has welcomed his longtime theological nemesis Hans K?ng for a long chat at the Pope's Castel Gandolfo. Benedict's first encyclical was not a finger-wagging treatise on doctrine, but a paean to Christian love. The sometimes shy pontiff has even begun to enjoy all the adoration heaped upon him by the piazzas full of faithful. Still, Benedict has drawn the line on doctrine, pushing through...