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...Renee J. Gasgarth '03 shuffled through her daily clutter of phone bills, marriage proposals and credit card offers, she was unnerved by a mysterious document. "When I first saw the invitation, I had no clue what the deal was. It was for some party with cheese, at an apartment I've never been to, hosted by a complete stranger. I didn't even know if he was a Harvard student or just some random guy. Total sketch vibes," she says. Sketchy or not, she regrets missing the event...
...phrasing of the church's apology, however, has been the subject of fierce debate inside the Catholic hierarchy. "Even when they released the 'Memory and Reconciliation' document, the Vatican made clear that there were different camps inside the church, some of whom felt the church was going too far in its apology and others who believe it hadn't gone far enough," says Van Biema. The central point of contention is whether responsibility for sins rests with the church itself, or simply with its errant children. "Although this pope has gone a lot further than any in history toward acknowledging...
...Vatican's 1997 document "We Remember," concerning the church's role during the Holocaust, was widely criticized by Jewish organizations for failing to go far enough in confronting the church's failures both during the Holocaust itself and in creating the cultural climate in Europe in which it occurred. Although the current document goes a little further than "We Remember," that's unlikely to be enough to satisfy Jewish critics...
...history in the Middle Ages, such as the Crusades, in which military campaigns ordered by the Vatican resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslims, Jews and Orthodox Christians, and the Inquisition, in which the Vatican authorized torture as a means of extracting confessions from "heretics." The document challenges many of the practices of the church in the New World, by criticizing forced conversions and stressing the need to bring converts to Catholicism by the example of "living in a Christ-like way" rather than proselytizing. And it seeks forgiveness for "Catholic solidarity in the sin of division...
According to "Principles and Policies That Govern Your Research and Other Professional Activities," a document distributed to Faculty members, "the involvement of faculty members in outside professional activities, both public and private, often serves not only the participants but the University as a whole...