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...finest work does not bear his name. In 1943 Pope Pius asked Bea's help in writing an encyclical letter on Bible scholarship; the resulting document. Divino afflante Spiritn, has been hailed by Catholic Bible scholars as their 20th century declaration of independence because of the latitude it gave them in Biblical interpretation. Two years later, Pope Pius asked Bea to become his confessor...
...many Protestants, the clock of Catholicism appears to have stopped in the Middle Ages; Küng says they are wrong. Some major reforms of attitudes and actions-notably as a result of the Jesuits, the Council of Trent, and Popes Leo XIII, Pius XII and John XXIII-have been accomplished within the church. Küng argues that many of these changes have answered the initial demands of the Reformers. In historical scholarship, European Catholic writers nowadays exude sympathy for the motives of Luther...
...Same Dignity." Famed in his own lifetime for his miraculous cures of the dying, Brother Martin was venerated by Limeños as a potential saint almost from the day of his death. He was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837, and Pope Pius XI reopened the investigation of his life in 1926, after devotion to him had spread outside Peru to the U.S. and Africa...
...Christians, about 900 million of them"-the council will explore areas of practical cooperation between "the separated brethren" and the Roman Catholic Church. One area suggested by the cardinal was as timely as the afternoon headlines. "Imagine what it would mean to humanity," said the longtime confessor to Pope Pius XII, "if all Christians would march ahead completely united on the question of nuclear arms, disarmament and peace...
...dependable is the unsolicited supply that the Board has only once deemed it necessary to uncover journalistic merit on its own; in 1937 it gave a prize to the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick-who had not bothered to submit her articles on Pope Pius...