Word: catechisme
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Sadly, his species is hardly one of a kind. Recall former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, at the forefront of the GOP’s fanatical call for the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At the same time, of course, he was consorting...
Beyond being headline news (how often does a major faith admit to retooling its take on the afterlife?), the shift, telegraphed in the 1994 Catechism, should strike most believers as a very good thing. For centuries, Catholic couples lived in fear that in the tragic event that their newborns perished...
A senior Vatican official told TIME that a more absolute ban on homosexuality would be impossible to enforce. "What does it mean to be gay?" he asks. "You have to acknowledge the complexity of the situation, but you also have to enforce the discipline." The first step, according to this...
Is this to say that every single teaching now a part of the Catechism is completely sacrosanct and inviolate? No, but the overhaul that some wish to inflict upon the Church would doom it to the same fate that so many other, previously vibrant, Christian denominations have experienced; a leadership...
But the book came out against contraception, and Karol Wojtyla went on to draft much of the language in Pope Paul VI's controversial 1968 directive reiterating that church prohibition. (Although many U.S. Catholics have long ignored the ban, some found their anger reignited in the 1990s when the Pope...