Word: papally
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...years of that near papal certainty is more than any self-respecting intelligentsia can take. The overwhelmingly secular intellectuals are embarrassed that they once nodded in assent to Morrow-like certainty, an affront to their self-flattering pose as skeptics...
...them their rights. Govindasamy Agoramoorthy Kaohsiung, Taiwan I will remember John Paul II as a pope of the people. He did not confine himself to the Vatican but traveled the world, meeting and blessing the members of his flock, young and old, common and famous alike, as a good papal shepherd should. He was a kind, honest and just man whose love for his faith and his people were apparent in his deeds as well as his countenance. Mary Kay Arndt Arlington Heights, Illinois, U.S. Of Royals and Nuptials Re the photograph of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla...
With his formal installation in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI took his place as the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics. His young reign, however, has already shown embryonic symptoms of a perennial papal predisposition—the urge to involve the church in the temporal affairs of sovereign states...
...first potential papal entanglement came last week when, in the first public statement of the new papacy, the Vatican condemned the Spanish parliament’s recent foray down the path towards legalizing same-sex marriage. The statement went so far as to instruct Spanish Catholic civil servants to refuse to marry homosexual couples, even at the expense of their jobs...
Just as marriage itself comes in religious and civic varieties, so too should the debate over same-sex marriage. Last week’s papal pronouncement is a problem because it attempts to fuse these two separate debates, by combining the issue of civil same-sex marriage into the parallel religious debate. Religious denominations around the world have struggled with the question of same-sex marriage—the Anglican Church in Canada has nearly split over the issue—and just as it is not the state’s place to interfere with these religions?...