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Perhaps because of this, Tehran permitted a tantalizing peek into the captives' lives. On Christmas Eve, Monsignor Annibale Bugnini, who represents the Vatican as the papal nuncio in Iran, was allowed to visit the Americans. He was taken blindfolded in a car on a ride so short that he assumed he was still in Tehran. So great is the mistrust in the city that even the revolutionary guards who rode along in the car also were blindfolded as they approached the secret destination. For nearly four hours, the monsignor chatted, sang and prayed with some...
...Protestant Reformation. The West German population is about equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and includes more than a third of the world's 70 million Lutherans. But a good deal of the edginess was due to some undiplomatic doings by German Catholics. Before the papal visit, the hierarchy passed out 40,000 copies of a booklet in which Historian Remigius Baumer flailed away at the heresies of Martin Luther, referring to his "sadistic" writings, "excessive anger and polemicism" and deploring his marriage to an ex-nun, which was described as "a sacrilegious wedding, stained by fornication." Before...
According to the Vatican, Kung's views on the Church's leadership and structure, especially the concept of papal infallibility, do not conform to those of the Roman Catholic Church...
...synod's final "propositions" for papal consideration, codified by West Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, have been kept secret. But most apparently endorsed tolerance: the birth control doctrine, as one Cardinal put it, "is not a discipline to be imposed in full rigor but should be gradually brought to the conscience of married couples as they mature." All sides agreed that the teaching must somehow be made more convincing...
...papal comment on "adultery " between spouses raises a ruckus...