Word: papal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...papal message, in a soft but unfaltering voice was played to a throng in St. Peter's Square. It brought relief and tears to listeners, who were hearing the pope for the first time since he was wounded Wednesday...
...Papal zeal has also created acute embarrassment among the Catholic politicians in Italy's fragile ruling coalition, led by the Christian Democrats. They had encouraged a low key, nondivisive approach to the issue in the hope of diminishing the political fallout. But the Pope's supporters maintain that it would be unthinkable for John Paul not to speak his mind on abortion in a country that is 95% Roman Catholic. Asks Giulio Andreotti, a sympathetic Christian Democrat and former Prime Minister: "How can one ask the Pope to be silent when one of the most delicate points...
There are far fewer Catholics than Protestants in China, and their situation is complicated. Of the 41 Catholic bishops in the country, only eight were appointed by the Vatican. The remaining 33 were elected by priests in China without papal approval, and are bishops of the government-approved Chinese Catholic Church, known as the Catholic Patriotic Association. There is one notable exception to this schismatic situation: Bishop Dominic Tang, 73, a Jesuit trained in Portugal and Spain. Even though Tang was appointed by the Vatican, remains loyal to the Pope and has so far refused to join the Patriotic Association...
...letter embarrassed the government. The Defense Ministry called the statement "spine-chilling and depressing," and Calvo-Sotelo even summoned the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Innocenti, to enlist his aid in silencing the bishops. Innocenti declined. Although the letter accurately reflected widespread fears in Spain, it contradicted the image of calm, steady helmsmanship that Calvo-Sotelo has sought to project since the attempted coup. But the army's brooding presence is undeniable-and, in at least temporarily stifling political debate, it may have lengthened Calvo-Sotelo's lease on office...
...Vatican's Holy Office has declared Kung a heretic and has forbidden him from teaching Catholic theology, ostensibly for his questioning of the infallibility of the Church. Indeed, in Does God Exist? Kung questions and then denounces the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility, and Paul VI's condemnation of birth control and homosexuality. He belongs to the liberal Catholic tradition that Plus IX tried to crush with his Syllabus. These are the liberals who believe the Vatican should shed its "ancient and mediaeval world-view," in Kung's words, and compromise with modernism...