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The era of such unfettered speculation seems to be coming to an end -at least for theologians who want to be considered believing servants of the church. Last month in Rome, 27 members of the Vatican's international Theological Commission used their fourth annual meeting to discuss how theologians...
Sir / Hooray for "The State of Union" [Oct. 9]! Since World War II, America's liberal Protestant seminaries have been ignoring parish churches and their pastoral needs. Conservative evangelical seminaries have expanded to train the parish ministers that Union, Yale, Chicago, Harvard, et al., refuse to supply. Money for...
Parlor Pig. Green Springs' 200 residents were aghast, as were other true-blue Virginians. They foresaw that the prison would not only deface the pastoral area but also attract new housing projects for guards and motels for visitors. It was, residents often said, like "leading the pig into the...
Since Vatican II, a number of U.S. dioceses have adopted formal procedures to readmit estranged Catholics to Communion without judging the validity of their existing marriage. One of the first to do so was Portland, Ore., where archdiocesan chancellor, Father Bertram Griffin, set up a so-called "good conscience" plan...
The most recent diocese to adopt good-conscience procedures, Baton Rouge, La., has also become the scene of the innovation's undoing. In June, Bishop Robert Tracy announced that he was setting up a good-conscience committee to regularize the process of bringing certain remarried Catholics back to the...