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...open to further debate. In Italy, Pope Paul's most intimate theological adviser, Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, helped write a statement for the Italian hierarchy declaring that it is impossible to support or spread Kűng's views "without separating oneself from the full communion of the church." More startlingly, Kűng's old friend and mentor, Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, doubted that a theologian with such opinions could still be considered a Catholic...
...week session in Nairobi, members of the Anglican Consultative Council voted 24 to 22 to "accept the action of any bishop, who, with the approval of his province, decided to admit a woman to the ministry." The decision will affect some 47 million members of the Anglican Communion in 90 countries...
Apparently some Romans who do not believe in God still believe in the familial usefulness of the church: 96.4% of those interviewed have their children baptized and 94.1% send their ch'ldren to First Communion. Mass attendance -between 35% and 40% every Sunday, 62% at least once a month-is much higher than tourists might expect, Pin and Cavallin noted, because tourists see only the churches in central Rome, while most Romans worship in the peripheral areas of the city. But attendance at Mass is often not highly motivated. "One gets the impression," concluded the sociologists, "that the church...
...chemists, and no other experts disagreed. UNIVERSAL YEARNING. Yet the backlash soon waned. Whatever exaggerations may have been committed by the environmental evangelists, no one could really scoff at the new American concern with "the quality of life," the universal yearning for clean air and water, quiet cities and communion with nature. That yearning gave rise to scores of new environmental books, from The Tyranny of Noise to The Politics of Ecology. It spurred myriad official responses, from the advent of car-free streets in New York City to a mammoth suit filed by 15 states, accusing Detroit automakers...
...theology is often cited as a justification for apartheid. But Anglicans, who form the third largest Protestant group in the nation (after the Dutch Reformed churches and Methodists), were not likely to disagree with him. The Church of the Province of South Africa, an autonomous church within the Canterbury Communion, counts some 1,000,000 members, of whom 75% are not white by official South African definition...