Word: agendas
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Influence & Pressure. The major top ic of the conference was the touchiest issue that now faces Orthodoxy: how to initiate and carry on the theological dialogue with Rome that Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI agreed to when they met in Jerusalem last January. Merely putting the subject on the agenda led the Orthodox Church of Greece to boy cott last year's Rhodes meeting, partly because the Greek bishops are fearful of Rome's power and partly because Athens' Metropolitan Chrysostomos is jealous of Athenagoras' growing influence in Orthodoxy. Strong pressure from some progressive metropolitans...
High on Wilson's agenda will be a discussion of North Atlantic Treaty Organization problems and the proposed creation of a multilateral nuclear force (MLF); this one has been fretting both the U.S. and Britain for years, and no one is really satisfied with...
...modern world. Last week the bishops of the Second Vatican Council began discussion of a document that goes a long way toward making that accommodation. For Catholics, Schema 13, entitled The Church in the Modern World, is the most personally important item of all on the council's agenda. Sometimes with platitudes, sometimes with passion, the schema bravely touches on every social issue that troubles the hearts of men, from overpopulation to nuclear war, and summons Catholics to join with others in creating a new and better world...
...chances of so formal a rebuke were small; the Episcopalians have not held a heresy trial since 1925. Nonetheless, some bishops felt that Pike should be urged to keep his controversial theological views to himself. Meanwhile, the convention delegates were occupied with the crowded agenda of their meeting. Among other first-week resolutions, they...
Purposeful Arms. Prince Feisal will probably try to keep the Yemen issue off the Arab summit's agenda and may be supported by the more or less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...