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Once a "Prince of the Church" gives up his day-to-day assignments, he is typically thought to be out of the running for the top job. Arinze, who was once the world's youngest bishop at the age of 33, and a participant at the Second Vatican Council, rose to be a power player in the Roman Curia, serving for many years as the point man on inter-religious dialogue. He served the past six years as the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, which will now be headed by Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera...
...know that? There are two kinds of evidence. First, from his life. Recently we've recovered a nice little memo of his to a fellow bishop on behalf of a plaintiff, telling that bishop to get his sticky fingers off this guy's property. The plaintiff whose side he takes is a Jew, and Augustine even quotes St. Paul to the effect of not creating a scandal "in front of the Jews." But more important is the theological 180-degree turn Augustine does between 395 and 398. He has moved from demeaning Jews and disparaging Judaism to becoming the only...
...Under parental pressure, the bishop demanded that the school shelve the books. The school’s nuns refused, arguing that it was their academic right to teach the modern canons regardless of the content. In response, the bishop threatened to remove the school from the Catholic diocese—an act that would freeze the school’s funding...
...added to the list. ‘Please read these quotes which I have taken out of context and placed here.’ And they were all quotes taken from the Bible,” Duncan says. “It was decided that if the bishop got a hold of it, it would have been a problem. I had to burn copies of the school newspaper in the basement incinerator...
Nevertheless, 54% of U.S. Catholic voters supported Obama, who is Protestant. That may give him the cover to move ahead with his pledges. An added twist to the Obama Administration will be its pro-choice Catholic Vice President, Joe Biden. Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, Pa., hometown of Biden, told his fellow bishops last week, "I cannot have a Vice President-elect coming to Scranton to say he's learned his values there when those values are utterly against the teachings of the Catholic Church." Another pro-choice Catholic, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, may be on the short list...