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...Brussels, Belgium, is an intellectual and a moderate, bordering on being a progressive. He has called for compassion for those who divorce and remarry and has urged a greater role for the laity, including women. CHRISTOPH CARDINAL SCHONBORN, Archbishop of Vienna, is regarded in Rome as a brilliant conservative theologian and a smooth parish leader. He was well placed in life to become both: he studied theology under Cardinal Ratzinger, who will surely argue Schönborn's case before the conclave, and is the third Cardinal in his family's lineage. As might happen with the Italian Scola, Schönborn...
...been no recent reported charges of priests or laypeople bribing church officials, but there have been concerns that the Holy See was lax in responding to the ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the U.S. And there have been some mixed messages coming out of Rome. Just last week, the theologian Georges Cardinal Cottier contradicted longstanding Church teachings that ban condom use, saying they could be "legitimate" to fight aids. The Vatican also seems to have been caught off guard by Spain's move to legalize gay marriage, which the church vehemently opposes. While the Pope recuperates, many of his duties...
...years, Harvard Divinity School students have taken advantage of Weston’s course offerings—including a particularly popular spring semester class on the New Testament taught by Weston theologian Daniel J. Harrington, who earned a doctorate from Harvard...
...Father Charles Brown, an Anglican theologian at Bishop Patterson College in Kohimarama, in northwestern Guadalcanal, says politicians have failed to lead. "The underlying question about our political system is this: Does it serve the people? If it doesn't, let's do away with it." Says Central Bank governor Hou: "The politicians are there to line their own pockets. It's the way Solomon Islands is structured. In Melanesian culture we have the idea of the Big Man. Whether they behave or misbehave, you don't criticize them." Some of those major players are finally being called to account...
...says Bill Muehlenberg, vice president of the Australian Family Association. In that rebellious era, "the importance of authority, family, religion were all chucked out in favor of the idea that God is dead, there are no values, we can all create our own right and wrong," says the Baptist theologian. "We've had a good 40 years of that social experiment, and by every indicator - crime, suicide, pornography, drug abuse - it looks like an experiment that's failed...