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The Catholic Crisis.(Letter to the Editor)
Our May 6 article on rethinking the tenets of Roman Catholicism prompted readers to rebuke irresponsible church leaders. Regarding the sex-abuse scandals that have recently plagued the church, many thought that the institution should, as one reader urged, "accept that there is a problem and face it."
Sex in the Church
Allow me to express my disapproval of your piece on pedophiles in the church, "A Case for Change" (U.S. Affairs, May 6). Child abuse is a serious crime that must be dealt with according to the law of the land; it is not related to religion. There are thousands of child abusers who are not priests and have no obligation to remain celibate. ...
- Persuade or coerce? A response to Kenneth Woodward.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Cuomo, Mario M. September 24, 2004 700+ words
...speech was not a religious dissertation. If it were, I would have felt obliged to point out that not only does today's Catholic Church refuse to claim infallibility in teaching that the fetus is a human person from the time of conception, it is a conclusion...
- Kenneth Woodward, longtime religious writer for Newsweek, is nothing if not...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life January 1, 2006 700+ words
Kenneth Woodward, longtime religious writer for Newsweek, is nothing if not diligent. For a big special issue of Notre Dame Journal of Law...
- In the same essay, Kenneth Woodward takes note, as have many others, of the...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life January 1, 2006 700+ words
In the same essay, Kenneth Woodward takes note, as have many others, of the terminological wars around abortion. Pro-abortionists call themselves pro-choice...
- Is church too feminine for men?: Statistics indicate it is.
- Newspaper article from: Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL) July 1, 2006 700+ words
...a non-binding creed in 2000 that says the role of pastor should be for men. The Catholic Church ordains only men as priests. However, Kenneth Woodward, longtime religion reporter for Newsweek, wrote that women predominate in churches...
- Ukrainian Catholic Church: part 1.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Roman Danylak January 1, 1996 700+ words
...the complex history of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Bishop Danylak starts with "the...Historical background The Ukrainian Catholic Church is again drawn into the limelight...of our Catholicity as the Ukrainian Catholic church, a particular Church of the universal...
- Liberal Catholic Church
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology January 1, 2001 700+ words
Liberal Catholic Church Liturgical church that has attempted to blend Roman...was founded by former members of the Old Roman Catholic Church in England. The Old Roman Catholic Church was founded in 1908 following the consecration...
- CAMBRIDGE HAS NEW OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH.(LIFESTYLE)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) Bergin, Mary November 12, 2002 700+ words
...clergyman has begun an American Old Catholic Church in Cambridge. Called Risen Christ...are acceptable. In the American Old Catholic Church, Messina says, women can be ordained...husband and wife. The American Old Catholic Church is not part of the Roman Catholic...
- Breakaway parish ordains woman priest: Bishop says ceremony seals schism...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Patterson, Margot December 7, 2001 700+ words
...ordained a priest of a breakaway Catholic church here Nov. 17. While Roman Catholic...was Bishop Peter Hickman of the Old Catholic church, which claims a common root with the Roman Catholic church. The Old Catholic church derives...
