Word: adrianus
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...Dutch Pastoral Council of the Roman Catholic Church voted for a policy statement against compulsory celibacy. During the debates preceding that vote (TIME, Jan. 19, 1970), one of the few voices arguing to preserve the old celibacy rule was a young-looking parish priest from The Hague, Msgr. Adrianus J. Simonis, now 39. "Simonis?" said a leading Dutch progressive priest at the time. "An unimportant voice." Soon, by a decree of Pope Paul VI, that "unimportant voice" will speak as bishop of some 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in the diocese of Rotterdam, where he has suddenly become the focus...
Dutch Buckley. Adrianus Simonis is frank about his conservative attitudes, though he claims that they are exaggerated. "If I am standing next to Ottaviani, I am a liberal. If I am standing next to Hans Küng, I am a conservative." Nonetheless, he disapproves of the idea of married priests, supports Humanae Vltac "fully" and thus (unlike most Dutch Catholics) opposes the birth control pill. In theological problems, he believes that "Rome knows best...
From his huge, simply furnished office in the Sperry building, Lie runs the Secretariat smoothly with the aid of eight Assistant Secretaries-General. In charge of Conference & General Services, a catch-all for every conceivable service from interpreting to pencil-sharpening, is Adrianus Pelt, a mild-mannered Dutch veteran of the League of Nations. The other day Lie paid him a chuckled compliment: "There are no interpreters left in the world-Pelt has them...