Article: The voice of despair: and then none of this mattered.

Article: Forging Papal Authority: Charters from the ...
Church History;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Council of Reims in 1049, and the subsequent rapid growth in papal authority.(3) In trying to protect their own interests, the monks ... played a role in creating in earnest the kind of centralized papal authority that they were trying to assert. Montier-en-Der, located ...

Article: An historic decline in papal authority
The Independent - London;  November 25, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... infallible", then what can we conclude? We can conclude that we are witnessing what may be the biggest decline of papal authority in real terms ever seen in history. There could be no greater gift to the ecumenical movement than that.

Article: The diminishing divisions of the pope.(papal ...
The Economist (US);  December 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... legalise divorce, two of Europe's most Roman Catholic peoples have flagrantly snubbed the Vatican. But this decline in papal authority is by no means confined to Poland and Ireland. Across the whole has been weakening. And issues such as the ordination ...

Article: Humanae Vitae: still controversial at 30. (retrospect of ...
National Catholic Reporter;  July 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Catholic theology." As a result, he lost his position at the university. Below, Curran looks again at the issue of papal authority. A related article recounts an interview with Patty Crowley of Chicago, a member of the papal commission that voted to ...

Article: Quinn calls for reform in papal authority: ...
National Catholic Reporter;  July 12, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Archbishop John R. Quinn, retired archbishop of San Francisco and a leading figure rn the U.S. hierarchy,has called for broad reforms in the way authority is exercised in the church. In a major sddress at Oxford University on June 29, Quinn charged that in xeeent times a political model of

Article: HarperCollins to Publish New Book by Leading Papal ...
Business Wire;  April 3, 2005 ;     606 words ...NEW YORK -- HarperCollins will publish a new book about the end of Pope John Paul II's life and the beginning of a new era for the Catholic Church by George Weigel, Roman Catholic theologian and author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II, which became an international bestseller upon

Article: Assessing ambiguous infallibility factor. (ordaining women and ...
National Catholic Reporter;  December 8, 1995 ;     700+ words ...The Vatican's declaration that the ban on ordaining women is infallible teaching, released Nov. 18 and intended to reinforce both the ban on women priests and authority of the church's magisterium, has unleashed a new round of debate over the nature of that authority and what is included in the