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...confirmed that 85% of the war crimes were committed by government-directed anticommunist forces, including the Salvadoran army and free-lance death squads, backed in some cases by wealthy, conservative citizens. The report accuses General Rene Emilio Ponce, the current Defense Minister, of plotting the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and two others. Leftist F.M.L.N. rebels, the commission concluded, also carried out assassinations and kidnappings, but more selectively. The commission recommended that 40 military officers be suspended immediately and that five F.M.L.N. leaders be barred from public office for 10 years. Eager to promote reconciliation, however, the National Assembly...
After church, Mobutu joins guests for a flute of his favorite pink Laurent Perrier champagne at the nearby presidential palace. Like an amiable monarch amid courtiers, he bows gracefully to kiss a woman's hand and banters politely with a local Jesuit priest before herding everyone across an immense terrace toward a buffet laden with lobster and thick steaks. In the 100 degrees heat, a wave of satisfaction seems to envelop the presidential party, a sense that all is still well in this remote hinterland far from the chaos afflicting the rest of the country...
...Jersey's Seton Hall University is both priest and physicist. He believes that science can describe the Big Bang beginning of the universe but is incapable of fathoming the ultimate origins of matter and energy, which will always come under the realm of religion. George Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who directs the Vatican Observatory, warns against reducing science to religion, or vice versa. For instance, when the Big Bang theory was brand new, Pope Pius XII wrote that "scientists are beginning to find the finger of God in the creation of the universe." Coyne thinks the Pope was wrong...
...controversial policies on women. Activists believe they are caught up in one of Christendom's great and historic transformations. "The last time there was such a ground swell that was not heeded was the Protestant Reformation," says feminist Sandra Schneiders, an Immaculate Heart sister teaching at California's Jesuit School of Theology...
...Spirit. "Heavenly Parent," for instance, makes God more a world soul than a Person, he contends, while "Father and Mother" smacks of dualism or paganism. God includes masculinity and femininity within himself without having sexual gender, Bloesch explains, but "the God of the Bible is not androgynous." San Francisco Jesuit Joseph Fessio, editor of Catholic World Report, is more direct. "If you change the language of the liturgy and prayers and feminize it," he says, "you're ultimately changing the religion...