Word: rome
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...modern Pope has tried more earnestly than Paul VI to control the proudly independent Society of Jesus. When the policymaking General Congregation of 235 Jesuits from 80 countries convened three months ago in Rome, Pope Paul made known that he wanted no changes made regarding the "fourth vow" of special loyalty to the Pope, which some Jesuits take in addition to the three usual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. His reasoning: to extend the elitist vow to all Jesuit priests (fewer than 50% are now allowed to take it) would weaken it as a commitment. Undaunted, the Congregation...
...extension of the argument that took place between the heretic Pelagius and St. Augustine some 1,600 years ago. Man, preached Pelagius, is untainted by original sin and is thus perfectible through his own efforts. The cynical saint disagreed and ran Pelagius out of Rome. But this humane heretic's views now dominate society, Burgess suggests, through the delusive notion that men are essentially creatures of their environment whose actions must be controlled by benign behaviorists. Disaster, says Burgess. No original sin, no evil. No evil, no moral choice. No moral choice and human freedom becomes meaningless, man becomes...
...story Hughes drew on reports from Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, who provided details about the looting of Italian art. A "dedicated tourist," Bonfante has witnessed the "systematic defoliation of Italian art" for several years, and shares Hughes' view that art thieves "deteriorate our lives. What they are stealing is our collective memory. If it goes on, there will come a day when you will be fingerprinted before you can go into a museum and watched when you are inside by submachine-gun-toting goons...
...morning of Feb. 6, Giovanni Spadolini walked into a committee room in Rome's Chamber of Deputies and got ready to debate. Three months earlier, Aldo Moro's center-left government had given him the newly invented and resonant-sounding portfolio of Ministro dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Minister of Cultural and Environmental Resources). Since then, Spadolini had been striving to get more money and protection for Italy's impoverished and vulnerable museums. Two new bills were ready to be argued. "Just as the debate was beginning," Spadolini recalls, "a colleague in the chamber came...
...theology at Germany's Tubingen University, has long been attacking these beliefs in such books as The Church and Infallibility? An Inquiry (TIME, April 5, 1971). For seven years, the Vatican has been wondering what to do about him. As letters went back and forth, Kung resisted summonses to Rome for questioning unless he could get open hearings and what he considers "due process." After his final refusal last September, 26 Vatican theologians and administrators began meeting regularly to discuss his case in the gray-and-ocher palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...