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The Pope, Justification, the New Perspective and Paul
Date: 06/29/2009
A couple year's back Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom co-authored a book with a spiffy little question for a title: Is the Reformation Over?: An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism . They marshalled evidence to suggest the Reformation had had a powerful impact and the Roman Catholic (evangelical types) and Protestant Evangelicals now had huge connections where there was ...
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Was Pius XII a saint? More Jewish-Catholic tensions
Date: 06/22/2009
The canonization process for the wartime pontiff is an ongoing source of drama--and tension. The latest dust-up concerns remarks by Fr. Peter Gumpel, the Jesuit promoter for Pius' cause for sainthood, who blamed Jewish pressure for the delay in the controversial pope's beatification. As the CNS story has it: Speaking at a Vatican bookstore in Rome June 19, Father Gumpel ...
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Revised Catholic Statement on Conversion Worries Jews
Date: 06/19/2009
(UNDATED) U.S. Catholic bishops tried Thursday (June 18) to clarify the Catholic Church's relationship with Judaism, saying Jews will not be targets of evangelism, but the church reserves the right to share its faith and welcome Jewish converts. The bishops resurrected a 2002 statement that they called "insufficiently precise and potentially misleading" about whether Christians should share t ...
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Pope Ends Holy Land Pilgrimage with Call for Peace
Date: 05/15/2009
JERUSALEM - Pope Benedict XVI ended his pilgrimage to the Holy Land Friday with a stirring call for peace at the site of Jesus' crucifixion and then made an emotional appeal to Israel and the Palestinians: "No more bloodshed. No more fighting. No more terrorism. No more war." After a weeklong struggle to get his message across through a din of Israeli criticism and Palestinian protest against Isr ...
The Pope's Theology
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The Pope's Life in Pictures
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The Road to the Papacy
Follow Joseph Ratzinger on his journey to becoming Pope Benedict XVI.
Who is Pope Benedict XVI?
- What's in a Name?
Background on the 15 Benedicts who preceded the current pope. - Ratzinger's War Years
Like many teenagers in wartime Germany, Joseph Ratzinger was involved in the Hitler Youth--but Jewish leaders aren't worried. - How the 1960s Changed Ratzinger
Student protests had a decisive impact on his conservatism.
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The Pope in America
An archive from coverage Pope Benedict XVI's 2008 visit to America.
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