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...Vatican questions a priest...
...respectful mien and, when possible, influential friends. Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 45, arrived in the Eternal City from Brazil with all three, but especially with friends. A leading exponent of liberation theology, a movement that often combines Marxist concepts with calls for social justice, Boff was asked by the Vatican to reply to a notification that his teachings were "considered dangerous," particularly in their appeal for a less authoritarian church. For support, Boff brought along two important Brazilian Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo Arns and Aloisio Lorscheider, both Franciscans...
Last week, five days after his congregation issued a warning against liberation theology, the Vatican's top doctrinal watchdog, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, met with Boff to explore the priest's views. At the four-hour interrogation, attended in part by Cardinals Arns and Lorscheider, Boff presented a 50-page reply to the charges against him. By all accounts the meeting was most amiable, and Boff will return to Brazil this week. In Rome a high-level committee will mull over his responses. The likely outcome: a statement that will announce no disciplinary action against Boff, but will criticize...
DJED. Josyf Slipyj, 92, Roman Catholic Cardinal since 1965 and exiled leader of Ukrainian Catholics; in Rome. Imprisoned by the Soviets for 18 years, he was released in 1963 in a conciliatory gesture by he Kremlin to Pope John XXIII. But Slipyj remained unhappy about the Vatican's Ostpolitik, including its openings to the subservient Russian Orthodox Church. He campaigned publicly for the creation of a Ukrainian patriarchate, with himself it its head, and was bitter that both Paul VI and John Paul II denied him that out of deference to East-bloc relations...
...Catholic seminary in Louvain, however, Conrad is unsettled by the fierce theological disputes that follow in the wake of the Second Vatican Council of 1962. When a confused fellow seminarian from Brazil quits before ordination, Conrad follows him into the secular world and, ultimately, to Brazil. In Lydia Davis' evocative translation, the pages Detrez devotes to Rio de Janeiro's celebrated carnival constitute a showpiece of brilliant costumes, seductive rhythms and collective madness. On occasion, the prose becomes as overheated as the event: "Three million men and women ... shouted, drank, pinched one another, capered about and formed snakes...