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...Harvey Oswald, who bitterly contested the Warren Commission's conclusion that her son had acted alone in shooting John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; of cancer; in Fort Worth, Texas. A loquacious, self-dramatizing woman, she once proclaimed: "If you research the life of Jesus Christ, you find that you never did hear anything more about the mother of Jesus after he was crucified...
...Father Hans Küng had no license to practice as a "Catholic" theologian. Since then Küng has been moved from the Cath olic faculty at the University of Tübingen into an unattached religion professorship. As for Schillebeeckx, whose belief in the divinity of Christ has been questioned, the Vatican has quietly decided to take no action, at least for now, thus signaling that there is still some lee way for liberal thinking in the era of Pope John Paul...
...notable Christologist, Schillebeeckx is a leader in the doctrinal reinterpretation of Christ, in part because he wants to make the Saviour more accessible to modern man. But in doing so, he avoids the words of the Nicene Creed about Jesus being "eternally begotten of the Father . . . true God from true God . . . one in Being with the Father...
...embarrassment of riches-and sometimes just with an embarrassment. For connoisseurs of melodrama there is the first meeting of narrator and martyr: "You were to have many faces, many names ... you were a Vietcong girl... You told me about a god with a yellow beard whom they call Jesus Christ and he has wings and flies over the clouds and dies like a Vietcong partisan ... then your name was Padre Tito de Alencar Lima ... Captain Mauricio said to you, 'Now you will know the local office of hell.' " Those who prefer the unexamined aphorism may choose: "The bitter...
...United Church of Christ is appealing the FCC deregulation in District of Columbia Circuit Court. Many religious groups strongly oppose the commission's move because religious programming, which falls under the category of public service, is no longer mandatory...