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Week of March 29, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

Cardinals air differences:

In an unusual airing of differences, two cardinals have debated the proper role of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in investigating theologians. Cardinal Franz Konig said the Vatican congregation should become less-defensive and adopt a more-careful method when examining theological writings on interreligious dialogue. German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who heads the doctrinal congregation, said his agency is only doing its job when it protects the faith - and the faithful - from concepts that would place all religions on the same level.

Gregory, John picked us history's top popes:

A panel of scholars has ranked Gregory the Great and John XXIII as the two most outstanding popes in the first 2,000 years of the Catholic Church. The Evangelist, Albany diocesan newspaper, asked experts in Church history and scholars from other disciplines to say which pope has made the greatest contribution to the Church?

Gov't blames WTO for postal ruling:

The federal government's decision to deny postal subsidies to several Catholic newspapers is rooted in World Trade Organization policies, a Liberal MP told the House of Commons March 19. The statement was made by Mauril Belanger, parliamentary secretary to Heritage Minister Sheila Copps, in response to a question from New Democrat Bill Blaikie.

Make way for the seminarians:

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput has announced the creation of an archdiocesan seminary to serve the rapidly increasing number of men preparing for the priesthood in northern Colorado. St. John Vianney Theological Seminary of the Archdiocese of Denver will open in the fall of 1999 and will be the only Catholic seminary between St. Louis and the West Coast.

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