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Among those who have signed the petition are Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Ambassador to the Vatican and former Boston mayor Raymond L. Flynn, former Cheers star Ted Danson, U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Byron said...
Twenty five years ago, in an encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI denounced absolutely all forms of "artificial" birth control. The edict was issued in the wake of the liberal spirit that infused the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, and was directly contrary to what most had predicted would be a softening of restrictions. Many prominent Catholics were caught by surprise--so much so that the main result of the decree in theological circles was to begin a debate on the nature of papal authority versus individual conscience...
...Vatican garages house six of the four-ton, bulletproof Popemobiles. And a surprising 14 other heavy-duty papal vehicles stand at the ready around the world. (The one John Paul rode through Denver last month was shipped up from Mexico.) Land Rover manufactured the first Popemobile for his visit to Britain in 1982, shortly after the Pontiff survived an assassin's bullet. Since then, almost everywhere John Paul went, new Popemobiles were sure to appear -- manufactured and generally donated by Renault, Peugeot, GM, Toyota and Mercedes Benz, among others. Last week, on his trip to the Baltic states (his 61st...
...Lezama's observation that there was "no real attempt to locate the source of internal problems and quell widespread dissension among Catholics," I disagree. The Vatican made a conscious decision nearly two years ago to have World Youth Day be an international celebration. Thus, young people from around the globe came together to celebrate their shared identity as Roman Catholics. I believe any and all attempts to examine our "internal life" as a church begin in our shared commitment to be Roman Catholic. That is, to claim as our own a faith tradition which is rich in its spiritual...
...immensity of their suffering corresponds to the enormity of the crime committed against them." POPE JOHN PAUL II apologizing for the Roman Catholic Church's support of the enslavement of African men, women and children. Apology lag: Several hundred years, but shorter than that of the Vatican's recent apology to Galileo...