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Principal forum for Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, chief of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, was Harvard's Sanders Theater, where a hushed overflow audience listened intently to his message. Bea's three lectures were part of an impressive four-day theological colloquium, inspired by the Vatican Council and attended by 150 of the nation's leading Protestant and Catholic scholars. Said Harvard's President Nathan Pusey: "We thought it would be perhaps a hundred years before we could come to the kind of occasion we have here...
...observers were given all secret documents of the Council and were asked to discuss all issues openly and freely. As a result of this mutual confidence and honesty, Cardinal Bea said, "Many observations made by the observers penetrated trated even into the discussion on the floor of the Council...
...Cardinal Bea's conviction that a miracle was taking place at Rome was further deepened when non-Catholic Christian congregations and leaders offered prayers for the assembly in St. Peter's. He cited the comment of Lord Fisher, the former archbishop of Canterbury: "No council of the Church of Rome has ever met so surrounded by the prayers of other churches...
...final Stillman Lecture tonight, Cardinal Bea will further examine the work of Vatican II and will attempt a prognosis of the Council's probable pronouncements on Christian unity...
...open." says one faculty man. "The trustees cannot bypass the situation as it exists." Rector McDonald himself i gave a sign that all the protest was having j a telling effect. He announced the appearance at Catholic University next month of a timely guest speaker: Augustin Cardinal Bea, a towering liberal at the Vatican Council. Bea's topic: ''Academic Research and Ecumenicism...