Word: catholicization
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...Connor's life has had enough twists and turns and zigs and zags to fill up a month of Behind the Music episodes. The priest's collar is her latest zag. After years of criticizing Roman Catholicism (including infamously ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992), she decided last year to be ordained as a priest by controversial Irish clergyman Bishop Michael Cox, the leader of a tiny religious sect. However, O'Connor hasn't quite joined mainstream Catholicism. Cox has come under fire in the past for reportedly offering confession over...
The National Review's writers have written that Ridge would alienate conservative Catholics. They note that, because of Ridge's avowed pro-choice positions, his own bishop refuses to let him attend church functions. Ridge's problem is that of John F. Kennedy's '40 in reverse--he is not...
But Matthew S. Vogel '01, president of the Catholic Student Association (CSA), says that members of his organization have felt a genuine lack of connection to other Christian groups in the past.
Vogel said the CSA would "definitely" welcome gay and lesbian students into leadership positions. In fact, he said that the CSA has a branch specifically geared toward Catholic homosexuals.
"I'm not sure that they regard all of God's word as being sovereign, whereas born-again Christians do," she said. "That may not be true for every individual Catholic, but in the church that is the trend."