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...bishops' critique was the work of a six-member committee headed by Alabama's Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb, 58, the chairman of the bishops' doctrinal committee. (Individual U.S. bishops, like those elsewhere, will also be sending separate responses to the Vatican.) The Lipscomb panel's chief objection is that the Catechism has not clearly distinguished a "hierarchy of truths" treating concepts like the meaning of Christ's crucifixion as more important than, say, teaching about angels...
...report sharply criticizes Rome's relentless use of non-inclusive nouns and pronouns (for instance, in referring to believers as "men" or "sons"), which the American bishops have been trying to banish from their own documents. One problematic passage in the Catechism, though it was not specifically cited by Lipscomb's panel, introduces a list of heroic women in the Bible by terming them "weak and feeble." The U.S. bishops did not dispute the text's predictable conservatism on controversial moral issues like birth control, but they did urge that such subjects get a "more positive" treatment rather than...
...Lipscomb, who received a Nobel Prize in 1976,declined comment but his secretary indicated hewill continue teaching the course despite itssize...
...mishap arose from a miscommunication over Lipscomb's planned retirement next year after 30 years at Harvard, she said. Core officials believed the professor retired last June, she said...
...case, the students meet with Lipscomb three times a week in Mallinckrodt Laboratory's largest classroom, which seats at least 100 people...