Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have, alas, only one illusion left," admitted 19th century English Clergyman Sydney Smith, "and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Compromiser & Cheerleader. John himself, in the council preparations, played the dual role of head cheerleader and supreme referee. He frequently visited the office of Archbishop Pericle Felici, secretary of the Central Preparatory Commission, and benevolently told the workers that he was pleased with their progress and would pray for their work. Occasionally he took a hand in redrafting agenda items that might cause offense to certain prelates. One agenda item suggested by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani's theological commission, on the relation of Scripture to church tradition, was so potentially damaging to interfaith relations that Cardinal Bea personally wrote...
...Catholics would attend as observers rather than participants. Lately some U.S. archbishops added to the gloom by telling their laymen not to expect too much from Vatican II, and last week the warning was echoed by a veteran of many ecclesiastical gatherings. Speaking at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Lord Fisher of Lambeth, the retired Archbishop of Canterbury, noted: "It is always unwise to expect too much from councils...
Whether much or little comes out of the council depends to a large extent upon the numerical strength-and the endurance-of the two opposing forces that will clash at the council. Says Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa: "There will be much disputing in the nave of St. Peter's over how the church must enter the Atomic Age." A number of conservative bishops believe that the church should stand aloof from the pressures of a temporal world, holding fast to its traditions. Led by such impressive figures as Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, Ernesto...
...GENERAL council," says the Most Rev. Thomas Roberts, retired Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay, "is a football match at which all the players are bishops." It is an apt likeness, for church councils of the past* were often tense and bitter...