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...John Paul is concerned, liberation theology in its most militant form has come to embody a struggle over the fundamental values and even the institutional nature of the church. Says Monsignor Carlo Caffarra, a theologian at Rome's Pontifical Lateran University: "It is a contest that now aims at the very truth of the Christian creed and hence the truth of the church itself...
...position draws upon a firmly based heritage. The protection of the clergy-penitent relationship rests on "one of the more basic privileges," says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller-as strong or stronger than the similar claims to confidentiality between lawyer and client or doctor and patient. The Fourth Lateran Council of A.D. 1215 formalized the already long-established clerical discipline of absolute secrecy for discussions during sacramental confessions...
...following a private funeral attended by only his family and friends, in a cemetery at the village of Torrita Tiberina, 30 miles north of Rome, where the Moros had a country home. On Saturday the government held a televised state funeral in Rome's Cathedral of St. John Lateran to honor the man who had been Italy's Premier five times. While hundreds of Italian leaders, including Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, and representatives of 100 countries stood in hushed silence, Pope Paul VI devoted a special prayer to his personal friend, Aldo Moro. The Pontiff asked "that...
...crowd of youthful supporters cheered wildly when Secretary-General Enrico Berlinguer, 53, the spare, introspective Sardinian who masterminded the unexpected showing, appeared on a floodlit balcony. Later, looking across a sea of red flags at a mass rally of 200,000 Communists in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, Berlinguer declared, "The political line of the Italian Communist Party promises the only valid democratic alternative to reactivate Italy. The gains of the Communist Party can only frighten the corrupt and the overbearing. They cannot frighten honest citizens...
...spiritual idea of liberation in mind, the Roman Catholic Church began its tradition of Holy Years in 1300; eventually they came to be celebrated fairly regularly every 25 years. As in past Holy Years, pilgrims to Rome who visit St. Peter's and three other basilicas-St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls-will receive a papal plenary indulgence: full remission of any temporal punishment (i.e., time in purgatory) they may have earned for their sins. The influx of tourists-at least 4 million are predicted-could be a mixed blessing for Italy...