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...Central America a year ago. He was especially alarmed by the campaign in Nicaragua to drive a wedge between the Catholic hierarchy and a "people's church" inspired by liberationist thinking. Upon his return to Rome, John Paul commissioned a special study of the problem by the Vatican's top theologian, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger...
Ratzinger's response is a ringing denunciation. Originally delivered in private last September at a weekly meeting of the Pope and his cabinet, Ratzinger's report appeared last week in 30 Giorni (30 Days), an Italian Catholic monthly. Though not a formal Vatican decree, the document is known to reflect the Pope's thinking and is the toughest theological attack yet mounted from the top level of the church...
Still, he became widely regarded as a martyr of science who had been humbled by backward churchmen. Despite some tributes to Galileo by later church leaders, including several Popes, his condemnation has continued to taint relations between the Vatican-indeed, perhaps all religious authority-and scientists...
Powers anticipates that Law will do the same for Boston and adds that he sees the new archbishop as a mediator between the reformist American school of thought and the traditional Vatican view on the matter...
...that when the U.S. sends an Ambassador to the Vatican, the country is in an uproar over the "separation of church and state," yet when the Rev. Jesse Jackson runs for the presidency, nobody says a word...