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Nostra Aetate Awards Ceremony And Lecture, October 20, 1998, Center For Christian-Jewish Understanding Oct 1998

Nostra Aetate Awards Ceremony And Lecture, October 20, 1998, Center For Christian-Jewish Understanding

Mission & Culture Publications

On October 20,1998, the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding honored His Eminence Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger and Chief Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat with the prestigious Nostra Aetate Award. Presenting the awards were Dr. Samuel Pisar and His Eminence John Cardinal O’Connor. The event took place at the Sutton Place Synagogue, New York City and was emceed by Mitchell Krauss, former CBS news correspondent. As part of the CCJU Awards Ceremony, Cardinal Lustiger and Chief Rabbi Sirat each delivered a paper, both of which, in addition to Dr. Pisar’s and Cardinal O’Connor’s comments, are published here.

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Women In A Divided Church: Liberal And Conservative Catholic Women Negotiate Changing Gender Roles, Christel Manning Jan 1997

Women In A Divided Church: Liberal And Conservative Catholic Women Negotiate Changing Gender Roles, Christel Manning

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

The Catholic Church in America is deeply divided, and gender issues (especially reproductive choice and women's ordination) have become a symptom of this division. This paper examines the language used by liberal and conservative Catholic women to talk about gender. It is argued that although similar divisions over gender exist within Protestantism and Judaism, Catholic women are in a unique position to confront them, Unlike conservative Protestants and Jews who have separated themselves from their more liberal counterparts by forming independent Evangelical and Orthodox denominations, conservative Catholics co-exist with liberals in the mine church. The paper shows that being forced …

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Ccju Perspective, Fall 1995, Center For Christian-Jewish Understanding Oct 1995

Ccju Perspective, Fall 1995, Center For Christian-Jewish Understanding

CCJU Perspective

Highlights: Forging bonds: CCJU honors Cardinal O'Connor for interfaith work -- Teaching the Holocaust, by Maureen Lutz -- CCJU Director Rabbi Bemporad meets Pope John Paul II -- The Splendor of Truth, by Rabbi Jack Bemporad -- Wenzel named new executive director; Ehrenkranz promoted; Harris is grants director -- Elie Wiesel gives commencement address and received an honoris causa from Sacred Heart University.

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U.S. Catholic-Jewish Pilgrimage To Poland, Eugene Fisher Jan 1992

U.S. Catholic-Jewish Pilgrimage To Poland, Eugene Fisher

Mission & Culture Publications

Reports that during July 20-24, 1992, a group of Jews and Catholics went to Poland to hold a Pilgrimage of faith, remembrance, and reconciliation, under the auspices of the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.

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The Catholic University In Transition: The Case Of Sacred Heart University, Charles T. Eby, Paul Siff Jan 1988

The Catholic University In Transition: The Case Of Sacred Heart University, Charles T. Eby, Paul Siff

Anniversary Collections

As the University enters another phase in its development under its fifth president, Anthony J. Cernera, and with a new bishop heading the diocese, it has been worthwhile to step back and review its history. It sheds a great deal of light on the last three decades of American Catholic higher education.

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The Rosary Of Hiroshima, Hubert F. Schiffer Jan 1953

The Rosary Of Hiroshima, Hubert F. Schiffer

Library Special Collections

Account of the survival of Jesuit priests (among them Father Hubert Schiffer) near the center of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima. Their survival was considered by many to be a miracle. The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima was started by Rev. Harold V. Colgan when he was completely cured of a serious heart attack after praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary. If cured he promised to spend the rest of his life spreading devotion to her. Blue Army members promise to say the Rosary every day, consecrate themselves to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and offer sacrifices and …

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