Word: imprimature
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...does not apply here," sniffed one Curia official. What does apply, of course, is the wishes of Pope John Paul II, who wants the teachings of the post-Vatican II church expressed clearly and uniformly. A new code of canon law, enacted last November, limits the requirement for an imprimatur to texts used in teaching. Catholic theologians, including those in the clergy, are thus freer to explore differing opinions. But when it comes to books intended to elucidate official Catholic dogma, the Vatican has now sent an unmistakable signal. Such texts must be unequivocally faithful to church doctrine if they...
...Baltimore, is a rather colloquial theological inquiry that has sold some 30,000 copies. In the book, Keane records his occasional differences with church teaching on matters like homosexuality, but is always careful in describing official doctrine. In 1977 Archbishop Richard Hunthausen of Seattle granted the book his imprimatur (Latin for "let it be printed"), which signified his judgment that the book was theologically sound. But as a spokesman for Hunthausen put it last week, "the archbishop had one notion of what imprimatur meant and the Holy See understood something else." At the order of Rome's Congregation...
...however, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concluded that Christ Among Us "was unsuitable as a catechetical text" and could not be made otherwise even with "substantial revisions." The Congregation's head, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, formally requested Archbishop Peter Gerety of Newark to remove his imprimatur. Without it, the book cannot be used in Catholic catechism classes; two weeks ago the Paulist Press bowed to the inevitable and stopped distributing...
...issues of the job--from straightening out the Faculty's finances to making strong Faculty appointments to revitalizing the undergraduate curriculum. But just as you don't "replace" Tom Landry as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, you don't replace someone like Rosovsky, who left his own idiosyncratic imprimatur on the Faculty. You go and find someone who will bring an entirely different approach and set of characteristics...
...more than a suburban house-bear price tags of $15,000. If one suggests that this is steep for a new teacup, however dense with sabi and wabi it may be, one is told that such objects are signed on the box by a noted living tea master. This imprimatur, a fabulously profitable extension of Marcel Duchamp's solitary act of declaring a urinal a work of art, gives the bowl its pedigree and value. Thus the tea implements are snapped up by the rich and fashion-tyrannized; and the tea masters make fortunes, what with certifying tea ware...