Word: pauls
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...Paul Epstein, associate director for the CHGE, added a scientific perspective to the dialogue. A gradual rise in temperature, an increase in night temperatures and a greater variability around mean temperatures are all indications that global warming has already begun to alter the world's climate, he said...
Finally, newly elected Student Affairs Committee chair John Paul Rollert '00 said tomorrow's committee meeting will be among the most important of the year...
...Edith Stein, and she was born Jewish. The consequences of that status led Jewish leaders last week to term the canonization "problematic," "offensive" and "an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust without coming to grips with it." They see it as part of a dissonant motif in Pope John Paul II's otherwise triumphant symphony of Catholic-Jewish brotherhood--a masterwork that is very much part of his grand plan for the church's millennial jubilee...
...whole, Jewish observers regard Stein's canonization--like John Paul II's beatification last week of wartime Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, who initially supported (but later denounced) his country's pro-Nazi puppet regime--as a small blemish on a sterling record. This is the Pope, after all, who established Vatican recognition of Israel, visited a synagogue and was host of a huge commemorative concert for the Shoah's victims. Yet there is concern that last Sunday's ceremony foreshadows another one: the pronouncement of Pope Pius XII as venerable, an act John Paul II reportedly hopes to accomplish...
...Richard McBrien, a professor of theology at Notre Dame, feel they know enough to conclude that outrage on Pius' part "would have given pause to the Nazis and perhaps changed the complexion of what happened at the end of the war." McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid or not, the impulse to protect Pius crippled the Vatican's March statement We Remember, a long-awaited and ultimately somewhat tepid repentance for Christian treatment of Jews up to and during...