Word: vatican
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...manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table . . ." The words, unfamiliar to Roman Catholics, come from the Book of Common Prayer, cherished by Anglicans since the first edition of 1549. The passage now forms part of a Vatican-approved hybrid Mass text that is based largely upon the Prayer Book. Only the central Eucharistic Prayer and a few other sections are from the standard Roman rite...
...Churches --Real Possibility, co-authored by the late Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner and Father Heinrich Fries of the University of Munich. The attack was signed by French Dominican Daniel Ols, who teaches at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome. Such an editorial does not carry the weight of a Vatican pronouncement, but Ols says that he was asked to write his piece "by the hierarchy," which would mean by key aides of the Pope or even by John Paul himself...
...Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism declared that continuing church division "openly contradicts the will of Christ." Rahner and Fries, making liberal use of Vatican II's concept of a "hierarchy of truths," proposed a unification based upon the Bible and the doctrines from the first two ecumenical councils. That would exclude such later Roman dogmas as the universal primacy and infallibility of the Pope...
...editorial accused the two Germans of "grave errors" and espoused the most conservative interpretation of Vatican II. He wrote: "The Church of Christ exists in the Catholic Church and the fullness of grace and of truth are the patrimony of the Catholic Church so that only she possesses the complete means for salvation." Reunion cannot occur, he maintained, without other churches' "assent to all and every one of the dogmas" professed by Rome. Vatican II did not explicitly make such a demand, which would exclude not only Protestants but also the Eastern Orthodox, reunion with whom has long been considered...
Disney's final trump card is that both of its parks are located in communities that are more than happy to have them and the jobs they generate. Pressing a case against the company on its home ground, contends Florida Attorney James Sisserson, is "like suing God in the Vatican." Lawyers find they have to tread a very fine line, says Hovland, between admitting "we all love Disney and noting that even the most perfect person makes a mistake once in awhile." But jurors by and large remain unconvinced about Disney's fallibility...