What's more, it would have done nothing to alter the simple fact that the international effectiveness of the Union depends, ultimately, on its member states rather than any new institutional theology in Brussels.
They had suppressed some documents and misrepresented others, in order to muffle the dangerous radicalism of a new Gospel-based theology.
Ryan also is happy to lend his Catholic moral theology credentials to his new boss, who sometimes struggles to strike a chord with religious voters.
But Mr. Tilley said the new pope is not known for radical theology.
For Conrad Gempf, a US evangelical who teaches the New Testament at the London School of Theology, as well-meaning as it is, WWJD? is the wrong question.
Meanwhile, intellectual figures like Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop Richard Chartres of London both influenced by eastern Orthodox theology have provided new tools for Christian thinking about the planet.
It could refer either to Saint Francis of Assisi or the well-known Jesuit, Saint Francis Xavier, both missionaries, said Terrence Tilley, chair of the Department of Theology at Fordham University in New York.
By the time he graduated from college, though he went to Manhattan College, another Christian Brothers school Giuliani had been thoroughly exposed to the new views then sweeping through the seminaries and the theology departments of Catholic colleges and, eventually, the broader Church.
With the new pope being himself a trained scientist -- Francis graduated as a chemical technician before moving on to study philosophy, psychology and theology -- the timing could be right for a new era of cooperation between the Vatican and science, building on the work of the STOQ Project -- Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest -- which was created by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
In his new role, Cardinal Ratzinger cracked down on theologians including South American priests who promoted liberation theology, which mixed Catholic teaching with Marxist notions of class struggle.
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