Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Divinity School faculty last month sent a resolution to 17 theologians and religious leaders--including the pope--showing its concern for the Vatican's censure of Catholic theologian Hans Kung...
...school sent copies of the resolution to Pope John Paul II; Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, archbishop of Boston; Kung, and other theologians in the U.S., West Germany, and the Vatican...
...Vatican told Kung last month that because his opinions vary from the true Catholic faith, he can no longer be considered a Catholic theologian. As a result, Kung will not be able to teach candidates for the priesthood...
...anything marks the 264th Pontiff more than his magnetic appeal it is his steely determination to reassert the powers of his office after the experimentation that followed the Second Vatican Council of the early 1960s. Thus, though John Paul is concerned about the growing shortage of priests, he insists that controls on their conduct must be tightened, not eased. In September he called in the superior general of the Jesuit order and demanded that its members correct "regrettable shortcomings" in discipline and faith. With John Paul's approval, the Vatican has also grown more critical of liberal theologians; last...
...Carter intends to let 35 million people die of starvation? Does the Pope know about all this and yet condemn us? Or is it the case that he is misinformed? If the Pope is informed, then woe be to us. If he is not informed, woe be to the Vatican...