Word: catholicization
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For the French village of Montaillou in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, these were the only choices possible. The former was espoused by the Catholic Church; the latter, by a group of heretics now known as the Cathars but often referred to in their own time as �...
Do you see a conflict between the country's economic means and the Catholic Church's position on population growth? The Catholic Church supports the constitutional position of responsible parenthood. And responsible parenthood includes educating parents and determining what is the right number of children they can support in a...
Bearing the brunt of the nasty, possibly racist whispers was the 52-year-old Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, the son of a Muslim convert to Christianity and a man praised for his intellect. The slurs alleged he had bought his first bishopric, lied about his age...
Archbishop Williams and Bishops Jones and Nazir-Ali support female priests, but the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, has been lukewarm to cold on the issue, and this could affect his chances for the top job. On the other hand, it may not hurt that Chartres, a cerebral member of...
VATICAN CITY Keeping It Quiet The Vatican released an unannounced papal directive on pedophile priests, published in Latin in the 2001 Acts of the Apostolic See. The guidelines specify that Catholic clergy should report priests suspected of pedophilia to the Vatican, where priests would hear the case in secrecy. There...