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...commemoration of the Reformation will have Catholic observers on hand. In some cases, Catholics are organizing ceremonies of their own. Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Madison, Wis., for example, will have an afternoon service commemorating the birth of Protestantism at which the guest speaker will be Lutheran Theologian Bruce Wrightsman. Last week's issue of the Jesuit weekly America had a portrait of Luther on its cover; inside, an article notes that it is now the consensus of Catholic theologians that "Luther was a profoundly spiritual thinker who was driven to revolt by worldly and incompetent Popes...
...Wittenberg-is being shared in by Catholics as well as Protestants. For both branches of Western Christianity, the great Reformer is increasingly seen not as a symbol of past schism but as a potential focus for unity to come. "Rapprochement between Catholic and Protestant churches can come," says Lutheran Theologian Jürgen Winterhager of Berlin, "not despite but through the Reformation...
...Netherlands. There, Catholic, Protestant and even Jewish scholars have participated in preparing a televised series of documentaries on Luther and his ideas, and this week there will be a major interfaith symposium at the Lutheran church attached to Amsterdam's Municipal University. Also in Amsterdam, Jesuit Theologian Pieter van Kilsdonk will celebrate the anniversary by presiding over a combined prayer service for Protestants and Catholics in a college chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola-a patron saint of the Counter-Reformation...
Father James Kavanaugh, an angry priest who wrote a book bitterly attacking the Roman Catholic Church, last week announced that he is finally resigning from the priesthood and intends to get married. Coincidentally, British Theologian Charles Davis, an angry ex-priest who left the church and got married, has now written a book bitterly attacking Roman Catholicism...
...legalistic church was very easy," says a Dominican in Seattle. "I could say to a person 'you are wrong,' exact promises from him never to do it again, give him absolution, and slam the sliding door. But that isn't what confession is all about." Theologian James Burtchaell, 33, of Notre Dame, describes the priest's new confessional role as "nondirective counseling," by which he means "not giving advice but helping you talk your way through problems you already know the answer to but can't face...