Word: catholicization
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The Bush team doesn't pretend that it never worried about how McCain's speech might play, especially in states like New York and California. Had it been more about the entrenched Establishment in general and less a personal salvo against Robertson and company, the speech might have worried them...
Meanwhile, after weeks of fudging, Bush sent a letter of apology to New York's John Cardinal O'Connor (though not to leaders of any of the other faiths that might have felt equally aggrieved), saying he regretted not speaking out earlier against intolerance at Bob Jones. (By week's...
...Muslims, Jews and Orthodox Christians, and the Inquisition, in which the Vatican authorized torture as a means of extracting confessions from "heretics." The document challenges many of the practices of the church in the New World, by criticizing forced conversions and stressing the need to bring converts to Catholicism by the example of "living in a Christ-like way" rather than proselytizing. And it seeks forgiveness for "Catholic solidarity in the sin of division" among Christians, referring to the Vatican's conflicts with Protestant and Orthodox denominations, binding Catholics to find ways of overcoming such divisions...
The window of opportunity for such soul-searching is not simply the millennium itself, but the papacy of John Paul II. "This pope has an unusual propensity for reflection and penance, with which he has struggled hard to infuse the whole church," says Van Biema. "It's pretty unlikely that...
At the time of Dubya's appearance at Bob Jones University, the school had a ban on interracial dating and an anti-Catholic reputation. The decision of a candidate who wants to campaign on inclusion and compassionate conservatism to make an appearance at such a university said more about his...