Word: seminarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was the customary international flavor to this year's ceremony. Pope Paul chose twelve students from the underdeveloped "third world," at tending Rome's Pontifical Urban University, to share in the ritual. One seminarian was from North Viet Nam, another from South Korea; four were Africans. Afterward, in a ten-minute sermon, the Pope spoke of the universal need for fraternity. "A new current of love must turn enemies into friends, strangers into brothers," he said. "Love is still shrunken and confined in side borders of customs, interests and selfishness which must be widened. Love...
...hearing yesterday morning, the judge at the Somerville District Court said that he "would issue a complaint" against Peter M. Brigham '70 unless the Inter-Seminarian Benevolent Association House "was out of Somerville by mid-night tonight," according to John Fauvre, a second-year law student affiliated with the House...
Brigham was working with the Inter-Seminarian Benevolent Association House, an apartment for runaway teenagers set up in Somerville by several Divinity School students...
...escapes me how religious leaders can be so sure that the fetus is a living soul. What seminarian has not grappled with the question of the origin of the soul in his anthropology courses only to come away as undecided as ever? The church today is in grave danger of dogmatizing beyond the clear teaching of Scripture and perpetrating a far greater misery than it did when it put Galileo under house arrest for his "heresy...
...members of religious communities are the only ones who can change them. To stay within the community and help renew it according to today's insights is, I think, very worthwhile. A seminarian friend of mine put it in a nutshell: "We are not in the real 'light of Vatican II' as yet; we are only at the dawn of a stormy day. But we have the opportunity to determine the weather. We can't go south for the winter; we have to stay and bring about the spring...