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...decade after the Second Vatican Council and two years before the death of Pope Paul VI, the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in the U.S. was struggling. Membership was in decline, and debates had broken out over papal authority and the church's ban on birth control...
...choose God only freely--as Catholic theologians teach--freedom is a virtue both in the church and in society. American Catholics, heirs of a democratic tradition, might be able to achieve the necessary, delicate balance between the strength of authority and the risk of freedom. The Roman Catholic Church has been adaptable in the past, evolving, replenishing and renewing itself through the centuries. In the U.S. it may prove able once again to listen to the needs of the times and to apply the remedies of eternity...
...Ricci plays a sorority girl who falls for a handicapped boy; Igby Goes Down, which follows a rich-yet-dysfunctional family and which features such offbeat greats as Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes and Susan Sarandon; and CQ, a film by Francis Ford Coppola’s son Roman, concerning a 1960s film director helming a sci-fi movie...
Millions of American adults dedicate their lives to serving young people as teachers, coaches or spiritual advisers. Roman Catholic priests, in particular, dedicate themselves to a degree most of us cannot even imagine. Why do they do it? Sheer goodness can explain a lot, but not everything. Even the most saintly among us is moved by a complex stew of motives, some admirable and some less so, some conscious and some unconscious. The sin of pride, for example, helps seduce many into goodness. Fear of real life is part of what tempts some into the cloister. And for a small...
VATICAN CITY Punishment for "Notorious" Priests To broad disappointment among Roman Catholics and victims' advocates, U.S. cardinals ended an emergency Vatican meeting on sexual abuse by priests without adopting a retroactive zero-tolerance policy. The prelates agreed to ask the Vatican for permission to defrock "notorious" pedophile priests but left open the matter of those accused in just one or two past cases. At a conference in Dallas in June, the cardinals will shape a mandatory policy on the abuse issue, which has rocked the church...