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...women torn between the demands of the home and the work front. She finds it ironic that as job opportunities expand, women "are having visions that reinforce their traditional roles." Fowler, who considered herself a "bench- warmer Catholic" before the visions began, says Mary's messages also reinforce the Vatican's ban on abortion. At the Dec. 13 pray-in, she told the crowd that "I pray for the conversion of ((Bill Clinton's)) heart, because I cannot stand with anyone who will stand for any form of abortion...
Popes rarely apologize. So it was big news in October when John Paul II made a speech vindicating Galileo Galilei. In 1633 the Vatican put the astronomer under house arrest for writing, against church orders, that the earth revolves around the sun. The point of the papal statement was not to concede the obvious fact that Galileo was right about the solar system. Rather, the Pope wanted to restore and honor Galileo's standing as a good Christian. In the 17th century, said the Pope, theologians failed to distinguish between belief in the Bible and interpretation of it. Galileo contended...
...Hall University is both priest and physicist. He believes that science can describe the Big Bang beginning of the universe but is incapable of fathoming the ultimate origins of matter and energy, which will always come under the realm of religion. George Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who directs the Vatican Observatory, warns against reducing science to religion, or vice versa. For instance, when the Big Bang theory was brand new, Pope Pius XII wrote that "scientists are beginning to find the finger of God in the creation of the universe." Coyne thinks the Pope was wrong to "take a scientific...
...church's opposition to women priests, which was endorsed in the rejected text. Bernardin backs the ban but said candidly that it is "generally not well understood or accepted" and that a more persuasive case must be made. Liberal lobbies hailed these developments. The upshot is that, contrary to Vatican wishes, the U.S. bishops have made women's ordination subject to ongoing debate...
WHAT LASTING MARK HAS POPE JOHN PAUL II MADE? The Pontiff is renowned, among other things, for his vigorous effort to stem dissent and clarify what Catholicism stands for. Thus the newly issued Universal Catechism "will be the signature that the Pope leaves behind him," says a ranking Vatican official. The 676-page summary of essential beliefs on doctrine and morals applies to all the world's 850 million Catholics. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's uncompromising doctrinal monitor, led the six-year project. His staff went through nine drafts and fielded 24,000 proposals from bishops. The French edition...