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...Pope is, in Catholic belief, a direct successor of St. Peter's, the rock on whom Jesus Christ built his church. As such, John Paul sees it as his duty to trouble the living stream of modernity. He stands solidly against much that the secular world deems progressive: the notion, for example, that humans | share with God the right to determine who will and will not be born. He also lectures against much that the secular world deems inevitable: the abysmal inequalities between the wealthy and the wretched of the earth, the sufferings of those condemned to lives of squalor...
...rest, for the foreseeable future, the question of the ordination of women. His answer, in brief, was no. The document disappointed and outraged many Catholic women and men; even some sympathetic to the Pope felt that his peremptory tone, his strict argument from precedent, i.e., that Christ appointed only males as his Apostles, represented a missed opportunity to teach, to explain an exclusionary policy that contemporary believers find outmoded or beyond understanding...
...horrible experience last year with a student who is a major recruiter for the Boston Church of Christ," said DeGreeff, a member of the Board of Freshman Advisers. "This is an issue that tortured my entryway. These students [who recruit for the Boston Church of Christ] violate people's rights here...
...Committee on College Life (COCL) yesterday decided to postpone a decision on whether to recognize a student group that may be affiliated with the Boston Church of Christ...
...yesterday's meeting, Epps said the College should not recognize Hrnicek's group because the group is not clearly independent from the Boston Church of Christ--also known as the International Church of Christ--a group which some have accused of aggressive proselytizing tactics...