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...male priesthood is divinely directed and unquestionable was "theologically suspect." And after six "listening sessions" with Catholic women who had resorted to abortion, Weakland urged open discussion and more compassion on the issue. For that, the Vatican vetoed an honorary degree he was to receive in Switzerland. Papal supporters picketed a 1995 Weakland event with a sign reading ROME NOT REMBERT...
...back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns "restless innovators" whose liberal "sloganeering" he finds ineffective; at the other "Papal maximalists" who have prospered under the current papacy but "sensing victory, [have become] even more judgmental and vicious." The vast, threatened "middle ground" is proud of the Pope but ignorant of his writings, defiant of his sexuality rulings and worried that the priest shortage threatens their beloved parish life...
...that was the tragic reality that Vatican City woke up to Tuesday morning, when the sleepy center of Roman Catholicism was rocked by its first murders in 150 years. "It was a fit of madness in a person with very peculiar psychological characteristics," explained Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a papal spokesman...
...better widget and sell more of it is one thing; quite another if he or she goes home listlessly unconcerned with human life and human attachments having to do with respect for the elderly, a love for one's family, the capacity to take joy from Christian perspectives. Papal prose is turgid, but here the Pope did say in almost as many words that socialism was an extravagant historical failure...
...really what the critics want to dwell upon. What's on their mind is the stands Pope John Paul has taken on--women. On their right to take holy orders, to abort a fetus, to frustrate insemination by artificial means. And they want to talk about the overexercise of papal authority, about the discipline he has exercised over dissident theologians...