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- People of God: the struggle for world
Catholicism (review)
- Reviewed by Dale Wharton, March 1995. Review of book by
Penny Lernoux (NY: Penguin Books, 1990). Vatican II reawoke the
church during a historic shift of Catholicism from a West
European institution to a global church. In 1978 the
reawakening came to an end with John Paul II. The book
succeeds at documenting the extent of John Paul II's
crackdown on reforms.
- Secularism & ‘Privatization’
of Religion Are Denounced At Vatican Meeting
- American Atheist, AANews, 29 November
1997. Decrying a privatization of morality, the bishops at
the Vatican return to the Vatican's traditional feudal
ideology.
- In time for millennium hoopla, Vatican
resurrects indulgences
- American Atheists, AANews, 30 November
1998. The Roman Catholic Church has brought back a practice
which even many of its followers had consigned to the
historical dustbin as both obsolete thinking and an
embarrassment, even an overt expressionism of greed and
commercialism.
- Pope running ‘saint
factory’?
- American Atheists, AANews, 2 May 1999. John
Paul beatifies monk accused of mental illness, fraud,
philandering. The pope has canonized 283 saints since his
election in 1978, almost surpassing the record of all
previous popes in the past 407 years.
- Intelligent-design advocates hail
Benedict's criticism of ‘scientific’
atheism
- The Associated Press, 11 November 2005. Pope Benedict XVI
has waded into the evolution debate in the United States,
saying the universe was made by an “intelligent
project” and criticizing those who in the name of
science say its creation was without direction or
order.