Word: catholicism
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Congratulations to France's elite antiterrorist gendarmes for freeing the 173 hostages aboard the hijacked Air France jetliner [Algeria, Jan. 9] and to the other people who contributed to the rescue, even though three hostages were killed prior to the final assault. Nevertheless, it would be naive to say that...
...fact, according to a survey by Ohio's University of Akron, Evangelicals now surpass even Roman Catholics as the largest sector of active churchgoers, though Catholicism has a vast official membership that counts all baptized infants. The Catholic Church remains powerful, but its esprit is being sapped by theological discord, not to mention declines in attendance at Mass, in parochial-school enrollment and in women's religious orders. The priesthood is attracting fewer and fewer new recruits, so that by the 21st century, many church functions will most likely be performed by laymen--and women. Meanwhile, Evangelicals are making inroads...
"We're really grieving," said Jacqueline Lansky, chaplain for undergraduates at the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center. "Something of this nature goes to the heart of people's hope."
In a startling move, Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston called last week for a moratorium on all demonstrations outside abortion clinics to prevent "anything which might engender anger or some other form of violence." Instead, he wrote in the Archdiocesan paper the Pilot, he will designate five churches for antiabortion...
Massachusetts, Virginia and federal authorities worked to untangle the maze of charges each has brought against John Salvi, the 22-year-old hairdressing student captured in Virginia and accused of killing two abortion-clinic employees in the Boston area. Salvi was returned to Massachusetts, where he faces murder charges. In...