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...must remain faithful to the established principles of the scientific method and not allow theological beliefs and dogma to interfere." PEDRO CHEQUER, director of the Brazilian government's AIDS program, announcing that it would forgo $40 million in American support by refusing to comply with a condition that all recipients of U.S. AIDS funding condemn prostitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...part, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn says, to spark debate in an increasingly secular Europe. Earlier this month, the influential Archbishop of Vienna - who is as close as any Cardinal to Pope Benedict XVI - wrote an editorial in the New York Times lambasting what he calls "Neo-Darwinian dogma," and suggesting that the Roman Catholic Church isn't necessarily convinced that evolution is true. "Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the Neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided process of random variation and natural selection - is not," Schönborn wrote. Some Catholics see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubting Darwinism | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

There's a good reason, though, to take Lincoln seriously: he offers many lessons for our own future. As we stand divided on religion, we can learn from a deeply spiritual man who was also deeply skeptical of religious dogma, who felt guided by a divine will but insisted that every public act be justified in secular language and reason. As we stand divided over a war, we can learn from a man who insisted that conflict in arms raised questions about who we are as a people--and who understood that "right makes might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The True Lincoln | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...will not respond to American Catholics' disenchantment with the church's antiquated edicts. Doctrinal disagreements in the past have caused groups to split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose the church teachings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...will not respond to American Catholics' disenchantment with the church's antiquated edicts. Doctrinal disagreements in the past have caused groups to split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose the church teachings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/19/2005 | See Source »

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