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...Benedict, 78, open his doors to K?ng ? The first answer may be as simple as the desire to catch up with an old friend and colleague: the two men had taught together at the University of T?bingen, and both had served as theological advisers during the Second Vatican Council. K?ng , 77, was quoted in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Tuesday as saying the Saturday dinner meeting at the papal summer residence in Castel Gondolfo was ?a reciprocal joy to see each other after so many years.? A Vatican statement said that the pair's standing doctrinal disputes were...
...When the Vatican wrongly left Israel off a list of countries that had recently suffered at the hands of terrorists, it was front-page news, and more than a few accusations of anti-Semitism were leveled. Major news outlets brought up the always touchy subject of Christianitys long-troubled relationship with Judaism, and demands were made for an official apology from the Vatican. Why, then, was this divestment attemptwhich Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center correctly labeled as functionally anti-Semiticbarely even covered...
...idea to have homosexuals in the seminary. It would be a lot like having co-ed showers in college." BRIAN SAINT-PAUL, editor of Crisis magazine, a Catholic journal, on word that the Vatican is beginning a survey of U.S. seminaries for "evidence of homosexuality," in an effort to prevent even celibate gays from becoming priests...
...noted legal scholar, Glendon teaches classes on human rights, legal theory, and comparative law, and has authored several books, including “Abortion and Divorce in Western Law.” A devout Catholic, she has been appointed to several positions by the Vatican including heading the Vatican delegation to the Fourth U.N. Women’s Conference...
...seen clearly by natural daylight, as Michelangelo meant them to be, from the floor 68 feet below. The forms have lost none of their "sculptural" definition, their nobly volumetric quality; instead, they have gained in modulation through the cleaning. Some doubts remain -- about the efficacy, for example, of the Vatican's plans for crowd and atmospheric control: as many as 18,000 people flood through the Sistine each day as it is, and with the publicity about the "new Michelangelo," this depressing figure (who sees what, under such circumstances?) can only swell bringing more pollutants with...