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Ostling is not the only member of the cover team with impressive credentials. Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who guided the cover project, was TIME'S Religion editor throughout the Vatican II period, writing numerous cover stories on the papacy and Protestant trends. Washington Reporter Jim Castelli was once religion editor of the Washington Star. Reporter-Researcher Michael Harris attended a Roman Catholic seminary for five years, and taught ancient and medieval philosophy, Latin and Greek at another seminary for three. New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst has interviewed theologians from Rudolf Bultmann to Hans Küng, while...
With the endorsement of Pope John Paul II, a Vatican panel declared in September that prevention of nuclear war "is the greatest moral issue humanity has ever faced and there is no time to lose." But just how should centuries of Christian theological teachings about war be applied to the realities of the current arms race? For two years the U.S. bishops have struggled with that
...theological grounds, Novak faults the bishops for adopting "a sentimental view of the Bible" that he feels has proliferated since the 1965 Vatican II convocation of the Roman Catholic Church, when there was a turn away from Catholic intellectual traditions in philosophy and theology in favor of a greater devotional reliance on scripture. Says he: "The passages they quote and the visions they take represent a soft and romantic reading of Christian theology, a Utopian view. I think it is an outrage to identify this sentimentality with faith in Jesus Christ. I don't think Jesus promises us that...
Hello, everybody. This is Father Guide Sarducci, gossip columnist for L'Osservatore Romano. Well, all the Vatican is abuzz with news of the latest scandal to hit St. Peter's Square. No, Yasser Arafat has not been made a Cardinal. No, a Swiss Guard has not run away with Koo Stark. (That's just my little joke.) Instead, some movie people have made a big expensive picture about, get this, an American priest who finances the papacy with money he got from the Mafia. He also has a real steamy love affair with a French lady...
DIED. Giovanni Benelli, 61, strongwilled, influential Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Florence who was twice a front runner in papal elections; after a heart attack; in Florence. As substitute Secretary of State under his friend, Pope Paul VI, Benelli earned the nickname "the Vatican Kissinger" for his shrewd grasp of international church politics and his tough, managerial style in running the powerful Curia from...