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...studied for the priesthood, has worked in Jesuit and papal archives, and has written many books on moral matters and the intersection of politics and religion. For having dared question the Church's positions on matters of doctrine great and small, he has been nearly stripped of his membership as one of the faithful. 'I am not a special case,' he writes, 'but in many ways a typical one.' In light of all this, asked why he chooses to remain a Catholic, Wills answers with quiet dignity, 'because of the creed'...Deserves - and will almost certainly find - a wide readership...
...Just a few miles away, a more moderate Boston faction annoyed Bernard Cardinal Law recently by suggesting the creation of an independent diocesan advisory council that would compete with a group he appointed. In Belleville, Ill., an existing organization called the Fellowship of Southern Illinois Laity suddenly tripled its membership and actually scheduled a lay synod this past weekend. The headlines have energized a graying generation of reformers and raised up new ones. Some dream of a nationwide lay congress and press for election of parish councils, pastors or even bishops. Others demand financial transparency or rollbacks of Vatican limitations...
...year ago, such rhetoric would probably have gone nowhere. This year it went viral. Starting as a post-Mass discussion group of two dozen people in January, VOTF has seen its e-mail membership climb to 10,000, and Muller reports receiving inquiries from parishes in 40 states about founding their own chapters. Muller himself, a cardiologist, has grown more cautious as his movement has grown bigger. On the Voice website is a set of presentations marked "VOTF Working Paper." They appear to outline a church in which elected lay people would wield as much authority as the clergy...
...secret of his ambition to join the nuclear club - he has even proclaimed it a "religious duty" for Muslim states to acquire nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to attack the West. But intelligence officials believe that the best he has managed to achieve, thus far, is a limited membership of that club, in the form of radioactive material that could be dispersed using conventional explosives - the so-called "dirty bomb...
...breadth of membership was just one aspect that distinguished this committee from its predecessor, the Mills committee, which met from 1999 to 2000 and recommended increased educational opportunities in lieu of higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers...