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...There have been two great deans,” Memorial Church reverend Peter J. Gomes said, reflecting on his more than 40 years at Harvard. “Henry Rosovsky and Jeremy Knowles. Each, in their own way, function in such a way that they made one pleased to be a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...slow-motion civil war of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., one very worldly question has arisen: who owns the real estate? If a congregation chooses to leave the U.S. Episcopal organization, do they have to vacate the property and the physical church building they have been occupying? That high-stakes question will surely take many more legal battles to resolve, but the first round has been won by the secessionists, in a high-profile fight involving a famous old church...
Reason is a word that surfaces repeatedly in conversations about the Pope and the U.S. Benedict's critics regularly accuse him of Vatican II revisionism--of downplaying the idea that Catholics may legitimately balance church teaching against the demands of their conscience. More broadly, they accuse him of minimizing the degree to which the Holy Spirit led the council to make substantial changes in the faith. But he remains true to the Vatican II precept of complementing blind piety that prevailed in the church before the 1960s with the rationalism of the Enlightenment and thus with modernity...
...hardly the first: John Paul II described faith and reason as the twin wings that lift the church. And yet a balanced takeoff has remained elusive. The U.S. is one of the few places where it seems to happen regularly. "America is simultaneously a completely modern and a profoundly religious place. In the world, it is unique in this," says a senior Vatican official. "And Ratzinger wants to understand how those two aspects can coexist." Almost all the things the Pope likes about us--our faith in the real value of plainspokenness, our pluralistic piety and even our wrangles around...
...Terrien said. White is head of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, a non-profit organization that works with religious and political leaders and provides humanitarian relief to impoverished areas in the Middle East. In addition, White is vicar of St. George’s Church in Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq. Calling White “a real hero,” Leach said White will bring an interesting perspective on the Iraq war. White’s fellowship schedule was delayed because he had to negotiate with radicals after...