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...NATURE OF GOD...
Tuesday, April 12. Robert F. Drinan discusses Can God and Caesar Coexist?: Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law. 7:30 p.m. First Parish Church. Admission free...
...pleasure to learn that Protestant faiths are changing their mind about the Virgin Mary. She is, indeed, the Mother of God. Though Mary is honored by God, she is not a goddess, and Roman Catholicism, to which I belong, does not worship Mary as a divine person. Catholics revere Mary the same as they love an elder, affectionate and powerful sister, and that is enough to give them happiness. Jacques Euzeby Marcy l'Etoile, France It was wonderful to see Mary on TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place...
Considered in this light, we may see the Pope as a passionate defender of human dignity—God given dignity, not “self-created” dignity—against anyone who would usurp it. In this view, God gives life; the abortion and war we create take it away. God gives us love among each other and within the family; we respond with divorce, birth control, and new conceptions of that family relationship. God gives us freedom; Soviet communism and the moral laissez-faire attitudes of modern democracy steal that freedom away...
...scholar Giancarlo Zizola was wrong when he said the Pope “saved the values of the West from the West itself.” Instead we will continue to change our ideas of nature and God and create our own values. In the process, I hope we will not forget what John Paul II tried to remind us: seeking God, and the Truth, is always good. It is never easy...