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Article: Doubts about dialogue.(pluralism and the Catholic Church)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 27, 1999
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Encounter with other religions runs up against the Vatican's hard doctrinal realities
Despite the pain that shot through Roman Catholicism for much of 1986 -- the ongoing silencing of Leonardo Boff, Fr. Charles Curran's loss of his status as a Catholic theologian, the decision to strip Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of authority in key areas -- the year also offered a remarkable harbinger of reconciliation between the church and the wider world.
In October 1986, John Paul II assembled 200 leaders of the world's great religions in Assisi, Italy, not to "pray together" -- that would be theologically problematic -- but "to be together and pray" on ...