Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The objects of Suenens' complaints ranged from the repressive measures employed against modern Catholic theologians to the church's attitude toward women. But his prime target was Vatican bureaucracy. The Pope is indeed head of the universal church, Suenens affirmed, but he is also the prisoner of a...
The Curia was quick to strike back. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, 85, dean of the college of cardinals, wrote a letter to Suenens reportedly charging that his public statements were defamatory and slanderous. Tisserant demanded a retraction. Suenens answered that such an accusation was "unacceptable" and said he saw "no cause...
The son of a Brussels restaurant owner, Suenens was raised by his widowed mother, sponsored for the priesthood and sent to Rome to study at 17 by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier. The young Suenens chose the progressive cardinal as his spiritual director and carried on a close correspondence...
By 1955, Suenens had formulated his views on churchly change in a book called The Gospel to Every Creature, in which he first described such ideas as co-responsibility of laity, priests and hierarchy in the church. In 1962, as a newly elevated cardinal, he counseled Pope John XXIII on...
Held Back. Suenens' enemies point out that the cardinal is more progressive in his pronouncements than in his own country; but for most of his tenure, Suenens has been somewhat held back by the six out of seven fellow Belgian bishops who are more conservative than he is. Today...