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...separated brethren." In 1954, Chicago's late Samuel Cardinal Stritch forbade his priests to attend the World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston; last November, five Catholic priests were sent by the Vatican to New Delhi as official observers. Under the skilled diplomatic direction of Augustin Cardinal Bea. Rome's new Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity solicited Protestant suggestions for the agenda of the Vatican Council and arranged for 60 non-Catholic observers, representing more than 225 million Christians, to attend it as Rome's official guests...
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...
Last week, in the name of Pope John, Bea invited three of the world's largest Protestant cooperative agencies-the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Presbyterian Alliance-to name two or three observer-delegates each by Aug. 1. Anxious to attend the sessions, the World Methodist Council accepted its invitation last month, and the Church of England has already named as Anglican delegates three experts on "ecumenical problems. Another major church group on the list is the International Congregational Council, whose delegates ended the ninth Congregational Council in Rotterdam last week, voted unanimously...
...Gold Rush version of Ben Jonson's Volpone. The musical comedy, timed to premiere with the beginning of Dawson City's Gold Rush Festival, launched the event with a splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened the festival, later joined an 18-carat audience to give the troupe a wild standing ovation. "It was tremendous," said Lahr. But the critics thought that the nugget needed some polishing. Said the Chicago Sun-Times, which sent a Canadian-born reporter up to cover the event...