Word: augustins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anglican bishops and clergy of Canterbury's retinue bowed to kiss the Pope's ring. Somewhat more coolly, the Roman cardinals shook hands with Canterbury and the other Anglicans; only the ecumenical-minded Augustin Cardinal Bea bowed. Then Paul and Canterbury retired to the Pope's private study for a 65-minute private discussion. Next day they met for prayers together at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the (Vatican) Walls...
SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE (Pa.) Augustin Cardinal Bea, J.D., head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity...
...warning did not reflect any lessening of ecumenical interest on the part of Pope Paul VI, who last month authorized Augustin Cardinal Bea to set up a theological "working group" to explore the possibilities of collaboration with the World Council of Churches...
...latest curial maneuver came to light in a letter that Augustin Cardinal Bea gloomily read out to the bishops and theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives...
...criticism could have been avoided. Last fall, Augustin Cardinal Bea, venerable head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, prepared a declaration denying that there was a Scriptural basis for condemning the entire Jewish people as "deicides" because some Jews were involved in the death of Jesus. Jews were generally pleased by Bea's draft, but between sessions it was rewritten by the Council's Coordinating Commission, which added a few sentences of praise for Islam and a vaguely worded hope for Jewish conversion; by implication, it reaffirmed the deicide charge by asserting that Jews...