Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think I am not being pessimistic in saying that a schism is to be feared by the end of the year," said Rouen's coadjutor, Archbishop Andre Pailler, last month; he foresaw that some French conservatives would leave the church rather than accept the liberal definitions of religious liberty and the church in the modern world that the Vatican Council will probably approve this fall...
Daunted by the national publicity given to his speech, Archbishop Pailler later explained that what he meant by "schism" was a spirit of disobedience toward the council's decrees rather than a formal split. Nonetheless, church observers believe that he would not have spoken out without the advice and consent of other bishops, and some French conservatives argue that the church is already suffering from a "silent schism" of Catholics who are "walking out on their tiptoes, leaving the church forever." The bishops face a touchy task of reconciliation in a land where those people who are serious about...
This month Roman Catholic Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit and St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter announced that they would give preferential treatment to suppliers who gave equal opportunity to minority groups; the same policy will eventually be applied to contractors. Under the terms of "Project Equality," bids from suppliers will be judged not only on the basis of cost and quality, but also on the company's fair-employment practices record. Directors of the project expect that within two years this policy will be adopted by at least 40 other dioceses...
...Roman Catholics, largest U.S. archdiocese, a vigorous leader who upon donning the red hat in 1959 confided, "I am happy for myself, but I am even happier for the people of Chicago," banned parish bingo, renovated dilapidated schools (15 days after he took over as archbishop in 1958, 87 children and three nuns died in a school blaze), racially integrated the parochial school system, declaring, "The glory of Christ demands it"; of cancer; in Chicago...
...private and public; his novels increasingly seemed to offer the inside dope about decisions of state, competing for the attention due the internal truths of spiritual life. The Shoes of the Fisherman was published at the time of the election of Paul VI; its hero is a middle-aged archbishop who becomes Pope, and before the novel is done, his intimately described crisis of private conscience becomes a not-so-hypothetical crisis of world politics...