Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...council will convene at a time when the church is in the midst of transition, attempting to plot a true and vigorous course through intellectual and social turbulence. Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger of Paderborn, one of Germany's most articulate advocates of change in the church, argues that Catholicism has finally come to the "end of the Constantinian era." In a world of permanent revolution, he argues, the church must think in universal terms and abandon a number of concepts that governed its past. Among these are the belief that the alliance of temporal and spiritual powers is "natural...
...monolith, and the spirit of renewal would move within the church no matter who was Pope. As it happens, many of the new directions within Catholicism are either tolerated or openly encouraged by the smiling old man who patently enjoys his many-titled job of Bishop of Rome, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Primate of Italy, Patriarch of the West, and, as 260th successor of St. Peter, Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth...
Some of the open, worshipful recognition of God was visible in news stories across the U.S. In San Francisco, after St. Mary's Cathedral had been destroyed by fire. Archbishop Joseph McGucken asked the 750,000 Roman Catholics in his diocese "for prayers of thanksgiving that no lives were taken, and prayers of guidance for the future." Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Cox, a guest preacher in the Disciples of Christ, reminded a G.O.P. rally in Richardson, Texas: "Most of us are prone to forget to whom we owe thanks for what we have, for what...
...Designed by Gyo Obata, with engineering consultation from Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, the church is a confection of thin concrete shells resembling nuns' coifs. tiered like a giant pudding mold. On top of the graceful central lantern is the slenderest of crosses. Says Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis: "It is an outstanding demonstration of the ingenuity of man in honoring almighty...
...Cyprus, Johnson had a different mission. There, the island's president, Archbishop Makarios, professes to be a friend to the U.S. even while turning a blind eye to a considerable and growing Communist movement on the island. President Kennedy had personally expressed his concern during a Makarios visit to Washington last June. It was Lyndon's job to reiterate that concern...