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...changes of modern times is that even more than in other ages they have ranged far beyond politics and swept aside cherished beliefs and values in science, social institutions, mores and even religion. Vatican Council II shook the Roman Catholic Church to its foundations by changing the Mass, diffusing papal authority, and opening new areas of theological speculation and cooperation with Protestantism. Americans have lived through the prohibition of liquor, then its legalization. Gambling is at the same time a crime and an increasingly popular form of revenue for states. Abortion, considered by many to be sinful as murder...
...ancient writing), Tisserant was until last year administrator of the Vatican library, which he modernized into one of the best equipped in all Europe. An important figure in the ecumenical movement to bring the Greek and Roman branches of the church into closer harmony, he was considered a possible papal candidate after the death of Pius XII. As Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, he traveled extensively with Pope Paul...
...graduated last June, having gained notoriety, admittance to Yale Drama School and near-excommunication for his "The Greatest Musical Ever Sung" produced in Dunster House a year ago. In his latest work, he shifts his focus from the Bible to a Weehawken, New Jersey housewife but continues to court Papal revenge with large doses of Durang's 50-minute play this weekend--at 10 and 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights...
Suppose Mark came first instead of Matthew: Mark fails to report a miraculous virgin birth and does not mention Matthew's famous "keys of the kingdom" passage, upon which papal claims to authority rest. Mark plays down the Jewish moorings of Christianity that are evident in Matthew and important to Jewish-Christian relations. Moreover, since Mark's is the simplest and briefest of the Gospels, stories appearing only in the other Gospels might seem more suspect as pious legends, making the Jesus of history a vaguer, perhaps less credible figure...
Once, when he was Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini...