Word: aggiornamento
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...while solemn prayers were said for them. Last week, when Paul VI presented 27 clerics with their red hats,* they swore their fealty standing up. The creation of a cardinal is still one of the world's most imposing religious ceremonies, but in the spirit of the Catholic aggiornamento Paul has made some measured simplifications...
That reformation is most spectacular in Rome, where the Second Vatican Council has unleashed a passion for aggiornamento in the most tradition-encrusted of churches. Catholicism's vitality shows in the new liturgy, and in the zest with which a generation of "open church" priests and laymen are calling for more reforms of outdated rules (clerical celibacy, for example), institutions (the Index of Forbidden Books) and teachings (birth control). The renewal at the Vatican has also had a striking impact on the sister churches: it challenges the Reformation faiths to re-examine how reforming they still are. "The ecumenical...
...really runs the Roman Catholic Church. Just as the third session of the council was ending, Pope Paul-siding with conservative cardinals of the Roman Curia-took a major decision out of the hands of the progressive majority of prelates. Thereby, he raised doubts whether he essentially favors the aggiornamento begun by John XXIII and whether he intends to give anything more than lip service to collegiality-the doctrine, approved by the bishops, that they, as descendants of the Apostles, share ruling authority over the church with the Pope...
...Aggiornamento. On a voluntary basis, and with a minimum of formal lectures, De Paul students can now enroll in four courses that explore "man's encounter" with man, God, the world, and morality. The readings are intensive and far-ranging, include Materialist Ludwig Feuerbach, Existentialist Paul Tillich, as well as the doctor angelicus, St. Thomas...
Kreyche has received dozens of inquiries and letters of congratulation from Catholic educators across the U.S., praising De Paul's new philosophy program. The response, he hopes, signifies an aggiornamento, or updating, in U.S. Catholic philosophy, to match the aggiornamento in theology. Otherwise, Kreyche says, "we would soon beget the nonprofessing professor, the nonintellectual intellectual, the non-Christian Christian. Without academic freedom, neither the student, professor, nor the college could fulfill their respective natures within the church...