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...revisers sought to eradicate both mistakes and colloquialisms. A notable NAB error occurred in Luke 1: 17, where antecedents got mixed up and "God himself" went before John the Baptist "in the spirit and power of Elijah," instead of John going before God. That was "practically blasphemous," says Jesuit Father Francis T. Gignac, chairman of the board of editors...
...this point some Catholic theologians question the Instruction. Notable among them is Jesuit Father Richard McCormick of the University of Notre Dame, who thinks the in vitro passage is the "weakest part" of the entire statement. In his view "the child should be the product of a loving act. That doesn't necessarily translate as a result of an act of sexual intercourse." McCormick agrees that the "unitive" and "procreative" spheres need not be combined in every act of a married couple...
While Latin American Catholicism struggles with problems like a serious clergy shortage, the Protestants are amply staffed and funded from the U.S. Swaggart says he has funneled $8 million into El Salvador and Costa Rica alone for welfare and church aid. Says Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, an exponent of liberation theology: "The sects have taken advantage of the weaknesses of the Catholic Church, and the church doesn't know what to do." Asked to explain his impact across Latin America, Swaggart allows, "Problems, persecution, difficulties -- these have always been catalysts that make people seek God. We put hope in people...
Wills is a onetime Jesuit seminarian with a Ph.D. in classics from Yale who now teaches American history at Northwestern. In Nixon Agonistes (1970), he tracked a man contending for a lifetime with self-destructive impulses. With Reagan, he finds a subject wholly at peace with his past. Whatever is unpleasant is simply ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family...
Nonetheless, she went ahead the next day with a spiritual retreat, planned earlier to help her reach a decision, at a convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration just outside Manila. "I had one day free, and I wanted to spend it praying," she explained. She told her Jesuit spiritual adviser that she wanted to fast, but he urged her not to. "The nuns will be so disappointed," he said, "if they cannot offer you food." She insisted, adding that she would bring only a few crackers to keep up her strength. In the end, Cory could not refuse...