Word: moral
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...Hunthausen and Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl with petitions signed by more than 13,000 parishioners over the past month to "protest the injustice" of Vatican intervention in the archdiocese. Earlier this year, in a virtually unprecedented step that was long kept secret, John Paul stripped authority from Hunthausen on moral teachings, marriage annulments, sacraments and the training of priests, bestowing those responsibilities upon the conservative Wuerl. Among Hunthausen's supposed transgressions: allowing altar girls and permitting a cathedral Mass for gay Catholics...
...second major ruling, the Vatican in August ended Father Charles Curran's career at the Catholic University of America, citing his open disagreements with Catholic moral teachings on birth control and other issues. As Curran fights to reclaim his post, probably in vain, educators are nervously awaiting a Vatican decree that could clamp new doctrinal controls on all Catholic campuses...
Conservative Moral Theologian Germain Grisez of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland sees John Paul's cleanup as one of historic proportions, comparing it with Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral...
...unusual investigation of all U.S. seminaries, ordered by John Paul, as harsh as some had feared. A Vatican report on 38 of the schools, out this week, declares them "generally satisfactory," though Rome is prodding a few seminaries (no names mentioned) to "resecure" loyalty to church teachings in moral theology...
...most of PBS's good gray fare, and he makes telling points about his homeland's cultural predicament. Africa today, he says, is dependent on the West in ways it cannot control: without the English and French languages, | public business in most countries would come to a halt. Western moral standards have often seemed as impenetrable to Africans as theirs have to us. "Early European missionaries," Mazrui notes, "found it easier to admit a slave owner to Communion than a member of a polygamous household." Meanwhile, Africa still has to import most of the manufactured goods made from...