Word: vaticans
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...judgment of many biblical scholars, especially mainstream Protestants in the U.S. and Europe, a number of these scriptural issues have long been resolved. But others are still being examined. Roman Catholics especially, who contributed little to biblical research for centuries after the Reformation, are enthusiastically at work, encouraged by Vatican II to re-examine the Scriptures. They are embracing a wide variety of biblical opinions, some of them as liberal as Protestant views. Germany's Hans Küng, for example, has joined those rejecting the belief that Christ was born of a virgin. As Catholics swing away from the right...
...Council of Trent dealt with the matter in the 16th century, the Second Vatican Council took it up again in the 20th, and the issue has been debated in countless forums in the intervening years. But the question of whether the Jews or the Romans were ultimately responsible for the execution of Jesus had never been threshed out in a civil court of law. Last week a two-month trial of the matter in Troyes, France, came to an end. The verdict: the Romans killed Jesus...
...three justices who heard the case prepared a 30-page verdict that was delivered by Judge Pierre Bondouaire. In it he abided by the Vatican declaration of Oct. 28, 1965, which stated that although Jewish authorities pressed for the death of Jesus, all Jews could not be held responsible for what eventually happened. The judge then found De Nantes guilty of libel. As for Isorni, he was awarded exactly what he had asked for: symbolic damages of one franc-or about...
...Catholic convert who founded the first American religious order, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. The cardinal was leading a pilgrimage to Rome, where Mother Seton was beatified by Pope John XXIII on St. Patrick's Day in 1963. Last week after 32 cardinals assembled in the Vatican to cast their ballots in a secret consistory, Pope Paul VI issued a decree of canonization on her behalf. Thus, on Sept. 14 in St. Peter's Church, Mother Seton will become America's first native-born saint. (Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized American, was canonized...
...Miracle. Mother Seton's followers first advanced her claim to sainthood in the 1880s. Eventually two miracles attributed to Mother Seton's intercession were confirmed by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites. Confirmation of two additional miracles is usually required for canonization; in Mother Seton's case, however, Pope Paul decided that one would suffice. It occurred in 1963 when Carl Kalin, a construction worker, was stricken with a complicated viral affliction of the brain...