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Jan. 14, 2001 Le Repos' Featured Site of the Day! This is a truly beautiful site! It lists the dates and times that Eucharistic Adoration is held in each church throughout the US and Canada. And that's just a start! This is a must see ... and don't forget to bookmark this site!
Bishops discuss crime, abortion ... but retreat from Ex Corde Ecclesiae As if the younger generations in this country don't have a hard enough time hearing good solid Catholic teaching ... This is a quote from a US Cardinal: "theologians have to have the freedom to be wrong" - I'm glad that those who teach our physicians don't have the same attitude. It's sad that those who are responsible for the teaching coming out of our Cathlic universities could care so little about the Faith they are responsible for defending. Excerpt from the January 2001 issue of Catholic World Report: Gathering in Washington for their annual meeting in November, the US bishops called for changes in the nation's criminal justice system and lamented the solid political support for unrestricted legal abortion. But they stepped away from plans to ensure the orthodoxy of theologians teaching at Catholic universities. In their latest discussions of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the Vatican document on the bishops' involvement with Catholic universities, the bishops adopted a new policy which - as the Boston Globe put it - "essentially removes the teeth" from the Vatican-approved policy. Under the terms of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, theologians teaching at Catholic institutions are required to have a mandatum indicating the approval of the local bishop, as a guarantee that his teaching is in line with Church doctrine. But at their November meeting the American bishops announced that they could not control the hiring decisions of private colleges and universities. Consequently, the bishops determined, professors would not be obliged to request or possess the mandatum. Questioned about that approach, Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, the chairman of the bishops'committee charged with implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, conceded that the bishops were effectively surrendering any authority over theological teaching. "There are lots of laws in the Church that one could contend don't have teeth," he reasoned. Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law also voiced support for the approach, telling a reporter that "theologians have to have the freedom to be wrong." The bishops were more decisive in a resolution calling for the overhaul of the nation's criminal justice system ... (article continues ...)
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