n their writings, the Second Vatican Council’s bishops demonstrated that the choice of communication style for handing on Catholic teaching is a significant, perhaps pivotal, pastoral decision. The bishops chose a persuasive style of language to shift the priority of their teaching away from that of winning arguments to that of building common ground. As a result, according to the eminent churc...

The First Vatican Council was convened in 1869 and ended in 1870, an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the most important events in her historical development since the Council of Trent. The preliminaries were surrounded by the closest secrecy. As early as the end of the year 1864, Pius IX had commissioned t cardinals resident in Rome to tender him their opinions as to...

The paper argues for new concepts in theological ethics: structures of virtue and structures of vice. The Catholic tradition’s development of the ‘structures of sin’ in the 1970’s and 80’s was a significant contribution to magisterial teaching. However, this concept should be updated in light of the trajectory and concepts of post-Vatican II theological ethics. The article proceeds in two parts...

In Codice Ratio is a research project to study tools and techniques for analyzing the contents of historical documents conserved in the Vatican Secret Archives (VSA). In this paper, we present our e‚orts to develop a system to support the transcription of medieval manuscripts. Œe goal is to provide paleographers with a tool to reduce their e‚orts in transcribing large volumes, as those stored i...

We present six years of new radial-velocity data from the Anglo-Australian and Magellan Telescopes on the HD73526 2:1 resonant planetary system. We investigate both Keplerian and dynamical (interacting) fits to these data, yielding four possible configurations for the system. The new data now show that both resonance angles are librating, with amplitudes of 40 and 60, respectively. We then perf...

Part I: Reflections on Mathematics in Biology Introduction: hierarchies of discipl ines . When hearing biologists about working methods in their discipline, one may often appreciate traces of the emotions of a scientific experience of great 1 In Proceedings of the In terna t iona l Sympos ium on Foundat ions in Mathematics and Biology: Problems, Prospects, Interactions , Invited lecture, Pontif...