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...Beyond any eventual Vatican document specifically on evolution, the debate over Darwin may arise in the Church's ongoing battle on bioethics. In a speech last week at a Catholic conference in Rimini, Italy - a sort of public warmup for the high-stakes private lecture he will give at Castel Gandolfo - Sch?nborn condemned what he called "scientism," or the failure of those in the scientific community to recognize that their findings can't provide all the answers...
DIED. Sister Mary Luke Tobin, 98, indomitably progressive Catholic nun; in Nerinx, Ky. A former ballet teacher, she was the only American woman to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Over the years, she spoke out against the Vietnam War and nuclear stockpiling and for female ordination. She was a close friend of monk and diarist Thomas Merton...
...RETIRED. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, 69, as the Pope's chief spokesman, after more than 20 years as the unflappable public face of the Vatican; in Vatican City. A confidant of John Paul II, the Spanish-born former journalist-the first non-cleric to take the job-modernized the Vatican's information service and helped move the Holy See into the Internet...
...entered the Valencia archbishop's residence for the brief meeting with Benedict. Inside, there were uneasy smiles and rigid body language. The customary exchange of gifts was also telling, with Zapatero giving the pontiff a modern abstract painting and Benedict handing the Spanish leader a copy of the Vatican codex. (Not very likely that the art work will get be hung or the Church document read...
...Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, it should have been a good day. On June 26, the devoutly religious Philippine President met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, giving him a copy of a newly signed law banning the death penalty in the Philippines and earning from him a heartwarming "Well done." That sort of endorsement is political platinum in the Philippines, where more than 80% of the population is Catholic. But Arroyo's opponents back home weren't impressed. That same day they filed an impeachment complaint against her, and by week's end had submitted three more. So much...