Word: catholicization
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'From the beginning, the Catholic Church has respected the dignity of all human life from the moment of conception to natural death.'
The long-running battle between gay-rights activists and the Vatican has moved into the realm of the dead. With 19th century Anglican convert Cardinal John Henry Newman, arguably the greatest Catholic thinker from the English-speaking world, moving ever closer to sainthood, trouble is brewing over where his final...
To be sure, there is no evidence that Newman ever broke his vow of celibacy. British-based Catholic-affairs writer Melanie McDonagh noted in the Times of London this week that Newman "would have regarded gay sex as an abomination."
But the brouhaha over Newman's burial place can also be seen as fallout from an increasingly hard line against homosexuality taken by traditionalist Catholic Church leaders. Before rising to the papacy, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger signed a Vatican document that said gay people have a "disordered sexual inclination...
Still unknown is whether Scranton's turnaround will benefit Obama. Will residents identify with his campaign platform of hope and change? Or will they agree with McCain, who wants to depict Obama as an out-of-touch elitist? In the end, it may come down to religion. The city is...