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When the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica is opened for midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1999, it will usher in the Jubilee Year for Roman Catholics around the world. From that night until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2001, the Vatican has prepared a full calendar of solemn observances, including prayer vigils, ecumenical celebrations and several canonizations, over which the Pope will preside...
...image of God. It means compassion for children, the poor, the suffering, the sick and the imprisoned. Those who invoke the name of Jesus Christ in this country today often forget that he was the child of a working class family, what we would call a "minority" in the Roman Empire, and something of a rebellious teenager. They forget that this traveling rabbi had no riches to speak of, counted prostitutes, beggars and criminals among his principal acquaintances and was ultimately killed for undermining the prevailing institutions of his day. Our Christian model was a radical, not a reactionary, concerned...
...event's highlights was an address from Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies Francis Schussler-Fiorenza, on theological liberalism...
Schussler-Fiorenza, who is the second tenured faculty member to hold the Stillman Chair in Roman Catholic studies, defended the role of pluralism and diversity...
...that the only world history I learned at Harvard was the century or so around the time of Augustus. A critical period, certainly; an interesting class, yes; but not enough to give me perspective on even the emperors who followed, let alone the far-reaching effects of the entire Roman Empire...