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...words of one strategically placed Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that opposition likely to be stronger than in America. While most U.S. Roman Catholics last week basked in the afterglow of his visit, the church's liberal wing was ready to end something of a moratorium on criticism of the new Pope...
...French Theologian Jacques Pohier on grounds that among other "evident errors," he denied the bodily resurrection of Christ. The Vatican is also quietly investigating iconoclastic Dutch Theologian Edward Schilebeeckx. The new "apostolic constitution" intended to reaffirm controls over faculties that grant degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments in only eight U.S. institutions, but could foreshadow church-wide rules in a forthcoming code of canon law. The document requires that the Vatican approve or disapprove the orthodoxy of tenured professors, and urges local bishops to take any doctrinal complaints to the Vatican if the schools...
...underlies not only the Pope's stance on abortion but his attack, often in the same speeches, on racial discrimination, economic disparities, war, terrorism and "national security" as an excuse for oppression. Though a supposed contradiction between the "liberal" and "conservative" aspects of John Paul perplexed some observers last week, there is an organic connection between them. A man who has observed the survival of his church against heavy pressures in Poland is likely to believe that in the West, too, a disciplined and doctrinally unified church is best equipped to struggle with the evils of society. In America...
That he might do so is precisely the hope of a research report on Women in Church and Society, published last year by the Catholic Theological Society of America. But the equality of men and women, stressed in America, is not yet a subject of such pressing interest to Catholics in those parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia) where the majority of Roman Catholics live...
Most of the important indicators are pointing down. The number of patents granted to U.S. citizens dropped from 56,000 in 1971 to 44,482 last year. Spending on research and development, which peaked at 3% of G.N.P. in 1964, was only 2.2% last year. While the U.S. percentage has been decreasing, West Germany's has averaged 3% annually since 1971, and last year increased to 3.2%. Japan's has risen from 1.3% in 1965 to 1.9% in 1977. Says Paul E. Gray, president-elect of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "We have lost a certain edge...