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...Basilica "if it were the price to be paid to achieve [Christian] unity." According to the priest, the Pontiff made the remark in a recent private conversation in response to Javierre's own questioning. The Pope reportedly added that he could take up residence in the Lateran Palace outside the Vatican, the nominal headquarters of Popes in their capacity as Bishops of Rome...
...lawyers [May 3], was obsessed with the legal profession's lack of a counterpart for the physicians' Luke and the soldiers' George. He journeyed to Rome and put the matter before the Pope. His Holiness directed Yves to go around the Church of St. John Lateran blindfolded and, after saying certain specific prayers, grasp a saintly figure, which would become the lawyers' patron. Yves, catching hold of an image, cried: "This is our saint!" Removing his blindfold, he was horrified to find that he had laid hold of the figure of the devil under the feet...
...strong feelings about priests who have asked to be relieved of their vows. So strong, in fact, that last week he put them in one of the bitterest possible Christian contexts. In his Holy Thursday sermon, before performing the traditional foot-washing ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, the Pope harked back to the presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been born.' I cannot...
Roman Catholic Moral Theologian Bernard Raring, professor at Alfonsiana Academy in Rome's Pontifical Lateran University, suggests that a valid marriage might never grow into a sacramental marriage. "If a marriage is dead," he argues, "it has no sacramental value. Even if it were a valid marriage, it is no longer valid if it has died." Three Jesuits at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University have even asked whether sacramental marriage vows, like solemn religious vows, might not be subject to church dispensation. Monsignor Pospishil, in Divorce and Remarriage, indeed flatly affirms that the church's "power...
...urging of Popes and councils, monastic austerity was gradually forced upon the clergy as a whole. Pope Benedict VIII in 1018 formally forbade priestly marriages; the prohibition was solemnly extended by the First Lateran Council of 1123. The rule, however, was not easy to enforce. Until the Reformation, parish priests frequently scandalized the faithful by taking wives, or at least keeping mistresses and concubines, as did Popes and cardinals. After Protestantism rejected celibacy for the ministry as unnatural and unnecessary, the Council of Trent declared it an "objectively superior state of life" and imposed excommunication on priests or nuns...