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Fortnight ago, at the Vatican, Augustin Cardinal Bea's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity announced that a limited number of religion experts would attend the council as its special guests, distinct from the appointed observer-delegates. First three named: Prior Roger Schutz and Pastor Max Thurian, both Calvinists from France's famed Protestant "monastery" at Tarze, and Lutheran Biblical Scholar Oscar Cullmann...
When Pope John XXIII summoned the Second Vatican Council to meet next October, the Vatican announced that nonCatholics would be invited to send representatives as nonvoting delegates. The job of figuring out who should come and in what capacity was left largely to Augustin Cardinal Bea (TIME, July 6), the wise old Jesuit who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. To avoid the diplomatic fiasco that marred the first Vatican Council,*Bea and his assistant, Dutch Msgr. Willebrands, spent long hours conferring with Protestant and Orthodox churchmen, made it clear that invitations would go only...
...Church but "Christian unity." No swift healing of the break that stems from Luther is remotely in prospect; yet many a move can be made. Hard at work on behalf of the Vatican is a German-born cardinal who got his red hat from Pope John XXIII in 1959: Augustin Bea, S.J., head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity...
...Vatican will make no doctrinal concessions when it holds its Ecumenical Council next October, German-born Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, president of the Secretariat for Christian Unity, told foreign newsmen at a Rome luncheon...
gracefully arranged things by extending an invitation through Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Vatican's ecumenical Secretariat for Christian Unity. To mollify the fundamentalists, Dr. Craig insisted that he was going to Rome mainly for centenary celebrations at Rome's Scots Kirk of St. Andrews-a churchman's Roman holiday that, incidentally, would include a visit to the Pope. In a final effort to block the visit, Britain's National Union of Protestants dispatched...