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Basic Catholic doctrine on the ordering of society was laid down by Pope Gelasius I in a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right-the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power." This, says Father Murray, established a "freedom of the church" in the spiritual sphere that served to limit the power of government on the one hand, and on the other brought the moral consensus of the people to bear upon the King...
...nearby Gona. There the two boys joined the church, learned to read and write, and lost their tribal fear of sorcerers and spirits. Later, while he was at St. Aiden's teacher-training college near Dogura, young George Ambo felt the first stirrings of a call to the priesthood, and at the same time attracted the attention of Anglican churchmen, who sent him off traveling through the villages with white missionaries as a teacher and evangelist...
...service to their faith, either go to church merely for the pageantry or fail to attend altogether. The Jesuits, who were forced from the continent in-the 18th century,* are still few, and the Catholic clergy, once linked to anti-independence regimes, is still suspect. While Europe increases its priesthood, Latin America now has only about 8% of the world's Catholic clergy. Argentina, with a population of more than 20 million, has but 4,708 priests, compared with some 50,000 in France for a population of 45' million. Argentina's clergy by necessity concentrates...
...teacher of philosophy in a Catholic seminary for the training of students for the priesthood, I have been teaching for years the possibility of synthetic biogenesis. The only thing that amazes us in this matter is that it is taking the scientists so long to accomplish it. As a reality, it will fit in perfectly with Thomistic philosophy and theology. This, I think, should take us off the hook we were never really on and leave Lois dangling there instead...
...Chinese-59-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop Paul Yu-pin of Nanking. Equally impressive was the report he gave of his church's growth in Formosa: during the past ten years, the island's Catholic population has grown from 5,000 to more than 200,000; its priesthood from...