Thursday, November 03, 2005
Chomping at the Bit: Some Teeth appearing in Ex Corde Eccelsiae?
LifeSiteNews release today states that a Vatican leak says:
The article, Vatican Education Official warns dissenting Catholic Colleges may lose 'Catholic' status, is on The Universe.
I think it's a hopeful leak more than a portent, because Miller, the Vatican official speaking, is being equivocal more than anything else. It seems that he may be showing an agenda in hopes of compliance without a real stick with which to beat.
Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see it played out and into what character of school they investigate or on what they will place their metrics -- scandal by position or theological content. Seems as if they are difficult things to measure.
The Vatican's number two education official predicts that Pope Benedict XVI will follow a path of "evangelical pruning" of secularized Catholic colleges and universities, declaring them no longer Catholic
The article, Vatican Education Official warns dissenting Catholic Colleges may lose 'Catholic' status, is on The Universe.
I think it's a hopeful leak more than a portent, because Miller, the Vatican official speaking, is being equivocal more than anything else. It seems that he may be showing an agenda in hopes of compliance without a real stick with which to beat.
Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see it played out and into what character of school they investigate or on what they will place their metrics -- scandal by position or theological content. Seems as if they are difficult things to measure.
// posted by John B. Manos @ 11/03/2005 01:48:00 PM 
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