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...Vatican settles a debt
Last week, after nearly two years of intense negotiation, Ambrosiano's creditors quietly circulated a 161-page agreement that called for the Vatican to pay them $244 million in recognition of its "moral involvement" in the bank failure. According to one church official, the settlement will mean that the Vatican's accountability in the matter "will finally be completely resolved...
...leaders met privately in an airport lounge for 20 minutes, the Pope dropped Reagan off at Air Force One and returned to a runway podium for wa brief liturgy. "He is a | charming person," the "Pontiff later told reporters, "and I am not disagreeable either." But some Vatican officials were irked that the Pope had been used as a political prop. Indeed, a camera crew from the Republican National Committee filmed the encounter, and it will no doubt turn up in television ads aimed at the 26 million Catholic voters...
...clear whether C.U.F.'s campaign had any direct impact on the Vatican's decision. Rome insists not. "The notion that we are subject to lobbying smacks of a U.S. political mentality, which does not apply here," sniffed one Curia official. What does apply, of course, is the wishes of Pope John Paul II, who wants the teachings of the post-Vatican II church expressed clearly and uniformly. A new code of canon law, enacted last November, limits the requirement for an imprimatur to texts used in teaching. Catholic theologians, including those in the clergy, are thus freer...
Book burning by censors of the Roman Catholic Church sputtered out long ago. The Index of Prohibited Books, and other means of limiting what the faithful were permitted to read, faded away during and after the Second Vatican Council. Now, however, there are small signs that the pendulum is swinging back slightly. No flames of outright censorship are visible, but a purifying heat seems to be coming out of Rome. For the first time in 17 years, two books, one of them the bestselling adult catechism in English and the other a lesser-known theological work used mainly in seminaries...