Word: catholicism
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Harvard's Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill replies that the University recently gave a used bus to the North Cambridge Catholic High School, a private institution.
American homosexual activists call the dreaded document the "Halloween letter." The directive, issued by the Vatican's doctrinal congregation on Oct. 30, 1986, was approved by Pope John Paul and dispatched to all Roman Catholic bishops around the world. In it, Rome ordered them to withdraw support from any organization...
Rome's ruling and Dignity's equally blunt response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city...
Elsewhere Dignity is struggling to cope. A New York City chapter has been split over one faction's marches and disruption of Masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the tough new church line. Some chapters have found priests willing to celebrate Masses quietly in non-Catholic buildings, but...
San Francisco Dignity members may now simply attend Mass in parishes that have large numbers of homosexuals but do not make a point of it. On the Dec. 18 deadline, Dignity worshipers will march out of a Catholic church in protest and complete their Mass inside a liberal Protestant sanctuary...