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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Cum Magno Dolore | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

Ominous Title. Felici's ambiguously phrased letter implied that these directions had come directly from Pope Paul VI himself. Actually, as Bea and his secretariat soon discovered, the letter did not have papal approval. The suggestions had come from Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, who had no authority of his own to give the orders, despite his important roles as Vatican Secretary of State and president of the Council's Coordinating Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Cum Magno Dolore | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...Bea Unity and Freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Week's Bestsellers In the Square | 10/22/1964 | See Source »

...Bea Unity and Freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Best Sellers in the Square | 10/15/1964 | See Source »

Unfaithful to Christ. The council was well aware of the bitter international reaction to the revisions when Cardinal Bea rose to present the amended draft for discussion. Pointing out that Jesus and the Apostles were Jews themselves, Bea argued that the deicide charge had led to pogroms and persecutions. His argument was strongly taken up by U.S. prelates. "I ask, venerable brothers," pleaded Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, "whether we ought not to confess humbly before the world that Christians too frequently have not shown themselves as faithful to Christ in their relations with their Jewish brothers." Albert Cardinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Test of Good Will | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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