Maybe the devil made me do it, but after reading Bishop (now Cardinal) Walter Kasper’s essay “On the Church” (reprinted in America, 4/23) for the second or third time, I went back through the text and conducted a little test.
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Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Walter Kasper: On the church
Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Due Process in the Church
The recent investigation and trial of the theologian Jacques Dupuis, S.J., alerted Catholics and others to the judicial methods of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Am., 3/12, Signs of the Times).
Posted inExplainer, Faith
What happens if a pope resigns?
Could a pope resign? Would a retired pope still be infallible? If a pope resigns and another is elected, are there in effect two popes?
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Opus Dei in the United States
From 1995: To its members, Opus Dei is nothing less than The Work of God. To its critics, it is a powerful, even dangerous organization.