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...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...
...motion are the ones who are truly influencing and changing our world. Melissa Shattuck New York City Andrew Sullivan's piece oversimplified the theological position of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. He did not change his stance with regard to the reforms set out by the Second Vatican Council. He just remained faithful to what the documents actually say and did not get caught up in the so-called spirit of Vatican II, which was so prevalent in the late 1960s and '70s. (The Rev.) John A. Cramer South Bend, Indiana, U.S. I was upset by your choice...
Andrew Sullivan's piece oversimplified the theological position of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. He did not change his stance with regard to the reforms set out by the Second Vatican Council. He just remained faithful to what the documents actually say and did not get caught up in the so-called spirit of Vatican...