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...those hopes in 1975 when he declared that such a change would not be "in accordance with God's plan for his church." Nonetheless, delegations of U.S. Catholic priests, nuns and laity meeting in Detroit last October appealed publicly for the ordination of women priests. Last week the Vatican formally declared that no matter what other churches may do, the Roman Catholic Church "does not consider herself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination." The decision will endure through Paul's lifetime and probably for years beyond...
Italian life. The Vatican had fought abortion every inch of the way. On New Year's Day, Pope Paul used his annual message to make an anti-abortion statement with the plea, "If you want peace, defend life...
...magisterium of university scholars on what should be believed about Jesus and what should be discarded. In doing so, Küng has become the leading theologian of what could be called the Liberal Protestant party within the Roman Catholic Church. He has also provided the committees at the Vatican with plenty of material for another decade of investigations. Richard N. Ostling
Anyone can play this game, but to play it entertainingly requires Amis' sure historical anchor and free-floating imagination. He sets young Hubert's struggle to stay unmutilated against a background of intriguing conjectures and sly jokes. Europe is ruled directly from the Vatican (Pope John XXIV is a stout-swilling Englishman given to reminding his visitors that "we are the Holy Father"). Plague and cholera still ravage its citizens because ecclesiastical authorities have hamstrung medicine and banned science altogether. Jean-Paul Sartre is a French Jesuit. Children read books like St. Lemuel's Travels...
Adds Cloud: "I imagine it is not unlike covering the election of a new Pope, waiting for the puffs of smoke that rise from the Vatican chimney when a decision has been made...