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After he bravely battled illness at the end of his life - and now as he heads toward sainthood in the after-life - it's easy to forget that Pope John Paul II was widely and sometimes loudly criticized earlier in his pontificate. The jabs from inside and outside the Catholic Church often related to his steadfast opposition to abortion rights, refusal to sanction condom distribution in AIDS-plagued Africa and other stands linked to his traditionalist view of doctrine...
...bring the student art community closer together and allow the contributors to get feedback about their own films. As it stands, the six contributors slated to show films at the festival include Alexa J. Bush ’07, George T. Olken ’07, Vanessa A. Pope ’07, Richard E. Ruiz ’07, Travis R. Wood ’07, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Helene Landemore.Bush submitted a short animation project titled “Animal Tales.” “I shot it in Sever...
Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed, Vicki Smith, Sue Lindsey and Justin Pope in Blacksburg, Va., Matt Barakat in Richmond, Va., and Colleen Long and Tom Hays in New York contributed to this report...
...Church since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council brought in mass in the vernacular. Said one Rome-based priest: "Opening up the Latin rite to anyone would amount to the Church turning back the reforms of Vatican II." A Vatican official who has worked closely with the Pope said that loosening rules on the Latin rite has been a long-time personal goal of Ratzinger, who had led what turned out to be failed negotiations in the early 1980s to bring back into the fold the followers of the breakaway French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who have defied the reforms...
...legacy "has been abused," and finding a way to widen access to the Latin rite "has always remained in his heart." Still, even mainstream members of the Roman hierarchy are opposed, fearing that it will exacerbate divisions within the Church. French bishops have openly argued against it. The Pope's old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last spring, privately advised against the motu proprio, the Vatican official said. Still, Benedict does not appear swayed. The professor Pope may be happy to have a conversation on doctrine, but he knows he always has the last word...