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Article: Today's sinners in eyes of the Vatican may very well be tomorrow's saints.(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 3, 1995
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Being a creative thinker of innovator in the Catholic church has often been a dangerous career track. From the earliest days to the present, those who pose difficult questions or take issue with one dogmatic pronouncement or another often run up against those who insist that anything new is out of bounds.
The papacy of John Paul II has revived that tradition with a vengeance. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by the pope's point man, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, has been a very busy place with a steady stream of pronouncements, secret interrogations and official disciplines.
Nuns, priests, bishops, theologians, activists all have felt the ...