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Cardinal Ratzinger of the Catholic Church has written that gays, lesbians and bisexuals should not be surprised if they are the victims of violence because of their "immorality," Ratzinger heads the Vatican organization that was once responsible for the Inquisition. Did not his predecessors make similar comments to the Jews? He is not alone in trying to justify anti-gay reactions on the basis...
...different in some ways, but our diversity is a wonderful and powerful thing. Imagine the vatican without the ceiling of the Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel or modern fiction without The color Purple. Or musicals without West Side Story, Or Harvard without Wigglesworth. The contributions of our community to society have been as enormous as the pains inflicted...
...John Paul II's 12-year papacy. That is still far from adequate. Moreover, new recruits do not outnumber the priests who retire or die each year, but the net loss was down to 313 last year. "Overall the trend is positive," reported Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education...
...retreat house, deepening their spiritual calling and refreshing their knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Seminaries should also take more care in selecting the faculty who will instruct and guide new priests, the bishops proposed. And while on-the-job training in parishes became popular in the years after Vatican II, seminaries are now going back to the basics, with heavier emphasis on daily prayer and the study of theology, particularly the writings of the early church fathers...
...satisfied with the result. Says the Rev. William Byron, president of Catholic University: "Nothing is being rammed down our throats." Because of antidiscrimination laws, the mandate for a majority of Catholic faculty will be "unenforceable," predicts Father Thomas Reese, a member of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. Vatican officials too say they aim at "flexibility," not demands imposed from on high...