Word: catholicization
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Alexa P. Summer ’06 always assumed that she would raise her children Jewish. Now that she’s in a serious relationship with a practicing Catholic, however, her children’s faith is no longer quite so certain. “It’s...
Church and state rub shoulders in the Eternal City - two adjacent cultures with their own rhythms and pageantry. The crowd packing a conference room at Rome's Villa Aurelia last Friday morning - nearly all men, most in business suits - look like members of a political tribe. They greet each other...
(2 of 2) That's possible because the relationship between Church and state has been in flux for well over a decade. In postwar Italy, the Christian Democrats held or shared power in every government until 1992. But despite its leaders' intimate ties to the Vatican hierarchy, the party continued...
In this confined and often suffocating place, it was still possible, though never easy, to breathe the love of God as a gay Catholic. Our love of the church helped us overlook its institutional rejection of the relationships we built and the families who embraced us as equals. For many...
WHAT TIDBIT TURNED OUT TO BE THE MOST USEFUL? When I was negotiating with [former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister] Tariq Aziz and Saddam Hussein for the release of two Americans, I found out that Aziz was a Chaldean Catholic. As a Catholic myself, the fact that I proposed that he...