Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Father Damien concerned about personality changes as a result of receiving a new heart. He cited the Vatican's position that the heart is nothing but a pump-"an admirable pump, but 'stupid,' a machine having its own circuit...
...branch for women. Unlike Sponga, who simply quit, Mulligan adhered strictly to church rules in such matters. Three months ago, he requested a leave of absence from his supe rior. He then, said the Jesuits, "petitioned Rome through the regular ecclesiastical channels for laicization with permission to marry." The Vatican has yet to make its decision...
Among those who have lost their jobs in the nationwide shake-up are the "peace priests," who were induced by Novotny to break with the Vatican and run the country's Roman Catholic churches. The old Communists had demanded that all clergy swear allegiance to the government, and arrested those who refused. But now thousands of priests who were forced to work in factories and on farms have returned to their flocks. A certain amount of private business is tolerated. Jerry Herdglotz, 47, for example, now drives his own Opel Olympia sedan as a private entrepreneur, makes...
...what seemed almost a counterpoint to Paul's traditionalism, a Catholic prelate last week strongly hinted that the Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years' house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. During his "examination" in 1633, the aged scientist was scoffed at for challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still...
...Hall, Ryan's only engineer, was as good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage, in 1959 became its chief judge, and last January was named the first American...