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...Bea who is handling the delicate problem of providing invitations to non-Catholic churchmen who would like to at tend the council as observers. His top flight staff of clerics has compiled a long list of unity-related subjects for the council agenda, including proposals on religious liberty, the rights of individual conscience and mixed marriages...
Much in contrast to his years as a back room scholar. Cardinal Bea now keeps himself as much in the public eye as his 81 years permit. He answers more than 2,000 letters a year, and has become good friends with such non-Catholic clergymen as Willem Visser Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches; the Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, retired Archbishop of Canterbury; and Franklin Clark Fry, who last week was elected first president of the newly merged Lutheran Church in America...
...past six months. Bea has delivered nine major public speeches and has given 15 press conferences in five languages about the Vatican Council. Bea denies that any magic or mystery is involved in his transformation into a public figure. "There is no charisma," he says. "Just an incitement to work. I was preformed for this...
Debt to Protestants. The son of a carpenter, Bea was born in Baden, became a Jesuit because "I was much inclined to the scholarly life." He was made professor of scripture in 1917 at Valkenburg, the Jesuit house of studies in The Netherlands, and four years later became provincial of the Jesuits' Upper German Province. That job did not last long. One day, the Jesuit general asked Bea why he was not sending more of his promising students to Rome. When Bea replied, "Because we have better schools here." the general made him superior of the Jesuit house...
...Bea's finest work does not bear his name. In 1943 Pope Pius asked Bea's help in writing an encyclical letter on Bible scholarship; the resulting document. Divino afflante Spiritn, has been hailed by Catholic Bible scholars as their 20th century declaration of independence because of the latitude it gave them in Biblical interpretation. Two years later, Pope Pius asked Bea to become his confessor...