Word: christly
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...Paulist Press is also responsible for issuing Christ Among Us, a catechism by Anthony Wilhelm, a former priest. Since it was first printed in 1967, more than 1.6 million copies have been sold-166,000 of them last year-and for many of the nation's 52 million Catholics, the catechism had become an indispensable guide to applying church teachings to contemporary problems. Two months ago, however, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concluded that Christ Among Us "was unsuitable as a catechetical text" and could not be made otherwise even with "substantial revisions." The Congregation...
...several years, conservative church groups, led by Catholics United for the Faith, have been campaigning against Christ Among Us and other texts that they consider dangerously liberal. C.U.F., which counts 15,000 members in the U.S. and abroad, is trying to help "the confused get out of their confusion," says its executive director, E. William Sockey III. The popular catechism, he argues, is doctrinally fuzzy on a variety of issues: it suggests that Mary's virginity was more than mere "physical inviolability," but could still be meaningful even if purely symbolic; and it waffles on the question...
...point of walking behind the cathedral's main altar to have a look during the statue's ten-day showing, the reactions were mixed, but rarely mild. It was "not at all blasphemous" to Katherine Austin, who thought it reflected a mystic Christian view that "sees Christ as our mother." Beverly Stewart, on the other hand, said, "It's disgraceful. God and Christ are male. They're playing with a symbol we've believed in for all our lives." The Christa seemed to be doing her job as a focus for provocation...
...this medieval rhetoric gives the book a very clever structure. Louise Agar has spent her 26 failure-ridden years believing in the distant past. But now the "Lord and Lover" has become her employer Giles, instead of Christ. The Treatise fascinates Giles, too--not its ideas, but its language. After losing his sight and his first two wives. Giles hires Louise as a research assistant. His sorrows, his grouchy promiscuity, and his insecurities as a scholar leave him totally unprepared for her chaste, almost religious adoration. Unless he can deal with his miserable past, his budding love affair is doomed...
ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH The Paper Men, Nobel laureate William Golding's latest novel, the protagonist, the footloose novelist Wilfred Barclay, experiences a sort of revelation. Standing in a church, in front of a statue of Christ, Barclay realizes...