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...secretary of the Cyprus-based Middle East Council of Churches, "Fear, human suffering and hopelessness" have caused so many Christians to emigrate that there is deep concern about the "continuity of the Christian presence and witness in this region." At an assembly of the church council in January, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican leaders vowed, "We shall stay in these lands, according to the will of God. This is where we belong and where we are rooted...
With the policy of simply mentioning the Church teaching and not espousing it, the steering committee indicates to the members of CSA and to the larger University community that there is room for dissent on these issues within the Roman Catholic Church, and that an individual can remain a Catholic in good conscience even if he or she believes that abortion is permissible and that homosexual relations are anything but sinful...
Another U.S. complaint is that the English version of the Catechism seems to back away from some of the key ecumenical language adopted by the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council. While Vatican II declared that the true church of Christ "subsists" in the Roman Catholic Church, implying that there is a place for other Christians, the Catechism uses an exclusionary phrase, "has its existence...
...screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying the 3-D illusion. The advantage of the wraparound Solido theater is that the edges of the screen are beyond the audience's field of view. "The screen seems to disappear in the peripheral vision," says Imax producer Roman Kroitor. "The picture stays right there; you can reach out and touch...
...Belgian speciality: in the past decade the government has fallen eight times. Belgians have instead looked to their monarch, Baudouin, for stability -- until last week, when the King became a commoner for two days. Confronted with a bill passed by parliament that legalized abortion, Baudouin, a devout Roman Catholic, had the Cabinet declare him unable to reign so he could avoid signing the measure into law. The Cabinet promulgated the law instead...