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They were wrong, but their cause was not totally lost. Last week--457 years, several disastrous religious wars and dozens of denominational splits later--Edward Cardinal Cassidy announced Vatican approval, with some caveats, of a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, toward which Catholic and Lutheran theologians have been toiling since 1967. Some of the Vatican's fine print was shockingly critical of the text, but it let stand without objection the Declaration's grandest statement: "Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part...
...suggests that Pope John Paul II may see a few contradictions. Without denying that salvation always begins with God's grace, the church refuses to relinquish some cooperative agency on humanity's part through, say, penance or charity. This and several other "divergences" are forcefully enough stated that German Lutheran Harding Meyer, one of the Joint Declaration's drafters, declares, "This is the worst news I've received during my whole career. This is not a basis for continuing the dialogue...
...continent who have lost their homes. U.S. refugee policy closes the door on some of the most severely oppressed and displaced people in the world. The number of Africans admitted to the U.S. is absurdly low in relation to the need in Africa. RALSTON H. DEFFENBAUGH JR. Executive Director Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service New York City...
...after following a female camper to Logan Airport on the T, George became a persona non grata at The Crimson, Tucker says. Soon after, he was banned from the University Lutheran Church homeless shelter after pushing a director down the stairs...
Busy organizing students for the University-Lutheran (Uni-Lu) Homeless Shelter's holiday events, the Uni-Lu volunteer director says he would rather stay out of the limelight. But fate, and The Crimson, prevailed...