Word: catholicism
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And lead it he has, not just forward but outward. "It is as if a Third World cardinal had won," remarked a Brazilian archbishop when Wojtyla was elected. The Catholics of that world, who often felt isolated and alienated by the Vatican?s high palace walls, were the ones John...
For all the adoring crowds and all the political world-shaking, though, John Paul has not been able to solve all of the Catholic Church?s problems with modernity. Quite possibly, he has created some. John Paul II has appointed more than three quarters of the College of Cardinals that...
In this era of "ethnic cleansing," identity politics and dislocation of communities, it is heartening that one of the most marginalized people in recent history--a minority Albanian inside Slavic Macedonia, a minority Roman Catholic among Muslims and Orthodox Christians--should find a home, citizenship and acceptance in an Indian...
Bojaxhiu was born of Roman Catholic Albanian parents in 1910 in Shkup (now Skopje), a town that straddled the ethnic, linguistic, religious and geological fault line in the then Turkish province, later Yugoslav republic, now absurdly unnameable independent state of FYROM (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). When she was...
...reflects a backlash against the earnestly modern Catholic culture that grew out of Vatican II, "whose identity seems rather weak and unclear to the MTV generation," says the Rev. Michael Baxter, a theology professor at Notre Dame University. The traditional Mass has filled a need for more transcendence, through Catholicism that again reaches the soul via the senses...