Word: augustins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another Curia official, Bishop Jan Willebrands, the brilliant Dutch prelate who long served the late Augustin Cardinal Bea in the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, is among the new cardinals and will likely succeed Bea as head of the Secretariat in name as well as in fact. The selection of men like Willebrands may help mollify some Catholic liberals who had hoped to see a synod of bishops eventually take over the functions of the College of Cardinals-a development now hardly likely with the promotion of so many princes...
...AUGUSTIN HARRER San Ignacio, Bolivia...
...Died. Augustin Cardinal Bea, 87, brilliant Jesuit theologian who established the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity in 1960 and labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned...
What About Paul? Exempted from the retirement rule because they are curial officials are France's Eugene Tis-serant, 82; Germany's Augustin Bea, 85; and Italy's Amleto Cicognani, 83, the Vatican Secretary of State...
Lille's Socialist Mayor Augustin Laurent and most city councilors boycotted the welcoming ceremonies, and crowds were sparse when De Gaulle's black convertible Simca rolled up in a drumming rain. De Gaulle looked glum himself as he toured the annual Lille trade fair and peered myopically through thick-lensed horn-rims at model rail ways, bridal gowns of Lille lace, and a pair of red-trimmed pelicans that expressed the mood of the day by turning their backs on the President...