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...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary announced that a petition urging a change in Catholic teaching on family planning had been sent to Pope Paul VI last June; among the 85 scientists and religious leaders who endorsed it were President Franklin Clark Fry of the Lutheran Church of America, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, former Episcopal presiding bishop...
Going Beyond a Charter. Academically, the renaissance of religion at Stanford began in 1962, when Theologian Brown was hired away from Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary as professor of religion. Guided by a 19th century charter that forbade any sectarian instruction in doctrine, the university did not even have a lecturer in religion until 1951. Now the religion teaching staff, operating within the humanities division, consists of four...
...speech he referred again and again to the "complexity" of the problem. One complex aspect was provided by Paul's trusted advisers, Arch-conservative Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 76, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Bishop Carlo Colombo, 57, the Pope's personal theologian. They insisted that so radical a change in moral teaching would be a clear repudiation of Paul's predecessors...
...share their bishops' feeling that a trial was out of order. However much they may wince at his gaucheries or blanch at his glib demythologizing of church teachings, plenty of theologians agree with what Pike is trying to do, if not with the way he does it. Pike, says Episcopal Bishop Stephen Bayne, a member of the committee that drafted the statement, "has awakened a lot of people to the fact that a lot of theology is wordmongering-and that there is nothing behind the words." Cambridge University Theologian Hugh Montefiore admires Pike for "putting aside the intricacies...
...Catholic Theologian Paul Hilsdale of Loyola University of Los Angeles, who is not prepared to admit that the story is simply legend, spies a sociological significance. The idea that Mary conceived without the aid of a man was a startling thought in a culture where woman was a second-class citizen; thus the story could be interpreted as a forerunner of today's equality of the sexes...