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...VATICAN CITY Keeping It Quiet The Vatican released an unannounced papal directive on pedophile priests, published in Latin in the 2001 Acts of the Apostolic See. The guidelines specify that Catholic clergy should report priests suspected of pedophilia to the Vatican, where priests would hear the case in secrecy. There is no instruction to inform police...
...were a decade of upheaval and renewal, and if Angelo Roncalli--the Italian farmer's son who had become Pope at the age of 76--had anything to say about it, the 900-million-member Roman Catholic Church would be no exception. Pope John convened the ecumenical council called Vatican II. Its purpose: to bring the church into line with modern science, economics, morals and politics and to end the division that had dissipated the Christian message for centuries. In doing so, TIME wrote, he "set in motion ideas and forces that will affect not merely Roman Catholics, not only...
With these issues in mind the Vatican, hardly an institution known for its radical liberalism, has come down on the side of peace. Last week Pope John Paul II made a call, in no uncertain terms, for people “to pray for peace and to be committed to building a world without violence, founded on respect for the dignity of every human being...
...Israeli researchers' downplaying of the importance of mysterious bones found at Qumran near the Dead Sea [SCIENCE, Aug. 6] is reminiscent of the Vatican's dismissive reaction to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices, a set of significant scrolls found before the Dead Sea Scrolls. By rejecting the idea that the bones might be those of Jesus, the Israeli experts may be seeking to protect prevailing religious doctrines. Indeed, your article closes with the sentence "To keep on the right side of the rabbis, the Israeli archaeologists say they have already reburied the bones." I would add that their...
...Dangerous Talk," I was expecting to see a reference to a book by Miriam Therese Winter, Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest. According to the book, during the cold war women were validly ordained as Catholic priests behind the Iron Curtain. The Vatican may ban the discussion of whether there should be female priests; it cannot deny the precedent. ALEXANDER CUDZEWICZ Scottsdale, Ariz...