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Your article on the church in China [Sept. 10] inadvertently asked an interesting question. Will Pope John Paul II, if he is successful in re-establishing relations with Communist China, allow Roman Catholics there to keep the church as it was before the Second Vatican Council, or will they have to abandon their traditions and endure the shock of all the changes that have occurred in the church over the past 20 years...
Managers who have found themselves embroiled in no-win squabbles with environmental and consumer groups might take some comfort in the problem facing the Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. It is being taken to court by, of all adversaries, an order of Roman Catholic nuns. Armed with 81 shares of Blue Diamond stock, the 750-member Sisters of Loretto, a teaching order based in Denver, last week joined twelve other parties in bringing a lawsuit against the company. The nuns' eventual aim, as one of them describes it: to urge the company toward greater "corporate responsibility...
...invitation extended to Pope John Paul II to speak on the Dudleian Foundation would have, if accepted, provided a remarkable bit of counterpoint to Mr. Justice Dudley's theme. It would not, however, have been the first time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs to Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the then-newly established Catholic University, who came at the invitation of Harvard President Charles William Eliot on October 23, 1890 to deliver the Dudleian Lecture on Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard...
...America in 1889, Rome continued to regard them as little more than missionaries in a backward country It was not until 1892 that the first apostolic delegation was sent to Washington. The ardent Protestantism of the founders of New England and the periodic outbursts of anti-Catholic feeling caused Roman authorities to regard America guardedly...
...strict constructionist interpreting the Constitution would argue that it is a Roman Catholic event and the Archdiocese should foot the bill. Others argue that it is a "state" event of enormous civic importance, and therefore the city and Commonwealth should assume financial responsibility as they would for any visiting dignitary. Still others argue that it compromises the always precarious doctrine of the separation of Church and state, and therefore even more care than usual must be exercised. The problem is particularly acute because Boston's political and civil establishment is in the hands of Catholics, none of whom wished...