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When Benedict was a top Vatican official, known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, he was quoted as saying that John Paul II's work had had an "inflation" effect on sainthood, a statement he later disavowed. Even though he's now in the driver's seat, it may be hard for him to slam on the brakes. Father Peter Gumpel, a deputy in the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, says that while it is "certainly possible" that Benedict could slow the flow of saints, "those already under consideration will be difficult to stop." Gumpel notes, however, that Benedict...
RESIGNED. FATHER THOMAS REESE, 60, oft-quoted editor of the Jesuit weekly America, after years of tension with the Vatican doctrinal office run by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger; in New York City. A source close to America says Ratzinger's office demanded that Reese, who sometimes aired liberal views, be axed. The Jesuit spokesman in Rome says Reese made his decision solo, after Ratzinger was elected Pope...
...just a start. Five “Hail Marys” would be considerably easier with cut-and-paste, but these sorts of wrinkles can be ironed out. The big challenge is going to be giving communion online. Once again, I think that the collective imagination of the Vatican can overcome these kinds of metaphysical or symbolic obstacles...
...achieved by cruising the virtual streets of LA as Beelzebub himself. With this I can see a wondrous combination of Christian initiatives, all for the electronic glory of Christ. Even the binary nature of computer programming is analogous to the Church’s Good vs. Evil dichotomy. With Vatican funding and American marketing and development, the Christian video game market would be set to explode. The collaborations could be momentous. I am sure that Mel Gibson would not be averse to selling the rights for a video game version of his film, “The Passion...
This is why the Catholic Church cannot allow itself to change fundamentally. Critics of the Church have pressed for a pope more open-minded to dissenting views, to views that differ from the orthodoxy that seems to be imposed from a Vatican out of touch with the wider world. Yet if the new pope consents to contraception, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, or any of the other issues on which it is behind the times, he will allow the doubt that is so pervasive in modern society to become institutionally embedded in the worlds oldest functioning religious body. This would...