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June 27, 1998 | Religion News Service
The Vatican said it welcomed last week's action by world Lutherans that the 16th century condemnation of Roman Catholicism by Protestant reformers no longer applies. But the Vatican's top official for Christian unity rebuffed a Lutheran affirmation that a consensus on the key doctrine of justification exists between Catholics and Lutherans. "The Catholic Church is . . .
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May 13, 2000 | Associated Press
Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from 13 regions of the world will meet next week near Toronto to review three decades of formal dialogue between the two branches of Christianity and to consider future steps. The closed-door strategy sessions will be chaired by Anglicanism's spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, and Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
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September 7, 1990 | From Reuters
Jewish and Roman Catholic leaders have agreed to work together to combat rising anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe and to forge a closer relationship between the two religions after a recent period of friction. The agreement was announced Thursday after a four-day meeting in Prague between the Vatican's Commission on Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish Committee on Inter-Religious Consultations.
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March 20, 1998
Re "Vatican Apology on Holocaust Too Vague, Some Say," March 17: Cardinal Edward J. Cassidy called the Vatican act of repentance "more than an apology." This might be a classic case of two cultures' confusion caused by different language. I believe the report and its "more than an apology" is directed toward the Jews. If this is the case, the Vatican should be sensitive to these language differences. If the report is truly meant to be an apology to the Jews, then Pope John Paul II should clarify and use the words, "We apologize to the Jewish people and the Jewish nation for the inaction of the Catholics."
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April 7, 2000 | ANTHONY DAY, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The espionage specialist David Wise has, in "Cassidy's Run," written a fast-paced Cold War thriller with all the elements of a good spy story--mystery, suspense, tangled personal motives, moral ambiguity. And, unlike most thrillers, the book has the advantage of being all true. Wise spent nearly a decade prying this story from reluctant U.S. government officials, then added to what he learned from Russian sources.
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April 13, 1996 | From Religion News Service
Pope John Paul II appears to be close to delivering on a 1987 pledge that the Vatican would assess Catholic treatment of Jews during the Holocaust and church teaching that some contend fostered anti-Semitism. The tract on one of the most sensitive and complicated issues confronting the church is being produced by the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.