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...delusive of these maxims is the so-called principle of self-determination. In the continuing dispute over Cyprus, it has been invoked by nearly all parties to the struggle to support whatever they were temporarily seeking to achieve-by all Cypriots to justify revolt against British rule, by Archbishop Makarios to support an independent government for the whole island, by Greek Cypriots as foundation for enosis with Greece, and by Turkish Cypriots for partition of the island and double enosis, union of one part with Greece and the other with Turkey...
...chancery has issued only one brief instruction on Mass revisions, and at least one parish will make no changes at all until next spring. "It's no big deal here," said one priest. Other bishops will conform to the spirit of the new regulations gradually. In Washington, D.C., Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle has insisted that pastors introduce the changes with 16 weeks of explanatory sermons. Says Msgr. Robert Arthur, a Washington liturgist: "You can't just take 350,000 people and shake them and say-look, you did this today, but you're going...
Another schema, on "The Church and the Modern World," denounced nuclear weapons that have "effects greater than can be imagined" as "most wicked." Some European and Oriental prelates wanted to make this denunciation even more specific; but Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan of Washington and Archbishop George Andrew Beck of Liverpool argued that the schema said too much about banning the bomb and too little about disarmament controls. Beck said that the council should not be too quick to condemn governments that have kept the peace and freedom through the nuclear deterrent: "To turn the other cheek is a counsel...
...neighborhood churches on Sunday, but find at St. Stephen's a spiritual pickup available nowhere else. "I've got a large number of Anglicans at my Wednesday services," says Powell, who gets along fine with other pastors, and has never been accused of congregation stealing. "The Anglican archbishop knows that I'm not taking them away from any of his services...
...Emile Cardinal Léger asked that it be stripped of all sterile condemnations; Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna complained that the present text was too narrowly Occidental and European in viewpoint. The schema was attacked as unacceptable by Sicily's implacably conservative Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini and by Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster. Heenan charged that it had been written by clerics with no knowledge of the world, delivered a savage attack on theological experts at the council who would like to modify the church's position on birth control...