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Pope Paul VI has strong feelings about priests who have asked to be relieved of their vows. So strong, in fact, that last week he put them in one of the bitterest possible Christian contexts. In his Holy Thursday sermon, before performing the traditional foot-washing ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, the Pope harked back to the presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been...
...from the apostles-a doctrine that Kűng thinks has "feet of clay" because of its weak biblical and historical basis. The most dangerous consequence of infallibility, in Kűng's opinion, is the way it colors the "ordinary" teaching office of the church. Pope Paul VI's birth control encyclical of 1968, for example, though not made as an ex cathedra infallible pronouncement, is nonetheless considered certain and binding. Kűng believes that Paul actually wanted to issue a liberal decree but felt that he could not admit that there had been so major...
...this country. With Joseph Papp, he helped found the New York Shakespeare Festival in the fifties, thus creating the single good reason for staying in New York during the summer. The Festival's greatest triumph, the three-play repertory Wars of the Roses presented last summer (two parts Henry VI and one part Richard III ), was both adapted and directed by Vaughan. Between stints with the Festival, he helped organize the repertory company of the Phoenix Theatre in New York-and launched repertory theatres in both Scattle and New Orleans. He is firmly committed to-and has played a major...
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Jesus passed it on to him. "If the next Pope does not call himself Clement XV," the vision advised him, "you will know that he is a false Pope." When Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini chose to reign as Paul VI, Abbé Collin became Clement...