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...survey of 2,400 baptized Catholics in 31 quarters of Rome, Jesuit Sociologist Emil Pin and lay Sociologist Dr. Cesare Cavallin, both of the Pontifical Gregorian University, tested, among other things, the acceptance of eleven Catholic dogmas. They found that papal infallibility ran a poor last: only 38.7% of the Romans accepted it. Belief in the existence of a hell for unrepentant sinners fared better (53.7%). Belief in the divinity of Christ was high (79.9%) and in the existence of God highest...
...Lateran University, suggests that a valid marriage might never grow into a sacramental marriage. "If a marriage is dead," he argues, "it has no sacramental value. Even if it were a valid marriage, it is no longer valid if it has died." Three Jesuits at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University have even asked whether sacramental marriage vows, like solemn religious vows, might not be subject to church dispensation. Monsignor Pospishil, in Divorce and Remarriage, indeed flatly affirms that the church's "power of the keys" clearly extends to sacramental marriage. Such new views, predict West and Francis, will...
...effort, nonetheless, began with Lonergan's theology. As a teacher of seminarians for 25 years - including twelve years at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University - Lonergan recognized that a persuasive theology could only be based on a thoroughgoing study of how theologians think. This led him to immerse himself deeply in epistemology, the study of man's knowing process...
...also see him, in a somewhat different focus, as a major catalyst in their thinking. Notre Dame's David Burrell and John Dunne, Chicago Divinity School's David Tracy, and Humanities Professor Michael Novak of the State University of New York, all studied under Lonergan at the Gregorian, and each attributes his own free-roaming theological method to Lonergan's influence. "Insight gave me the freedom to go on through trusting my own understanding," says Burrell. "It is not the system," says Dunne, "but what Lonergan does. He moves from one horizon to another while talking about...
...does seem to many today, and minister and congregation both may be uncertain which role is more appropriate: that of prophet anticipating the future, or that of stabilizer reaffirming the past. On the other hand, Dr. Dale Moody, a Baptist theologian currently teaching at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, believes that the church is being deliberately dinned out of its complacency: "God is giving the church a good shaking today. With his left hand he disturbs her slumber with the noise of social revolution, and with his right hand he rings the bell calling for relevance to such pressing social...