Word: vaticans
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...second thought, though, maybe these seekers of veritas know what they're doing. Peninsula is the political equivalent of the Italian peninsula--blocked from the mainland on one side, isolated from the rest of civilization on the other three, and at the middle of it all, the Vatican...
...short, the magazine is the product of a totalitarian impulse, (which may explain its obsession with the pre-Vatican II incarnation of the Catholic church, with its insistence on doctrinal purity and intolerance of dissent...
...issue that many hoped John F. Kennedy had laid to rest with his famous speech to Houston's Protestant ministers in 1960. His candidacy had disinterred the old charge that a Catholic could not be trusted with the nation's highest office because of his allegiance to the Vatican. Kennedy's response was direct: "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act." As President, he would decide issues "in accordance with what my conscience tells...
Although the Vatican pronounced the apparitions genuine, the Pope was slow to react to Fatima. Fatimites imply that the evils of Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia could have been avoided if only Catholics and the pope had responded more quickly...
Although the U.S. bishops appear to play down the Anglican-Use arrangement for fear of fraying ecumenical ties with the Episcopalians, this is, in Fichter's view, a "liberal" step that amounts to a Vatican "admission that + the beliefs and practices of traditional Anglicanism have been basically the beliefs and practices of the Roman Church." Fichter considers the Anglican- Use parishes a far more important innovation than married clergy. This development, he contends, "may be called the first significant ecumenical breakthrough in the relations between Anglicans and Romans...