Word: cardinale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last week the council had been characterized more by illusory busyness than by substantial action. Nearly every day the bishops made a bit of news by ratifying some new chapter of the long schema (draft proposal) on liturgy. For example, they authorized greater use of the vernacular in the...
Overlapping Authority. It was Pope Paul's intention to make the Vatican Council as democratic as possible; as it happened, he provided it with a cumbersome machinery that seemed to have more overlapping authority than the U.S. space program. In theory, executive mandate to guide the debates was given...
The debate on collegiality lasted nearly two weeks. Finally Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens, one of four supervising moderators of the council and a leader of the progressive forces, proposed that the prelates be allowed to take a straw vote on the four key propositions of the schema...
Guided by one of the cardinal unwritten rules of negligence practice, lawyers for the relatives and heirs of the victims filed suit against everyone who might be involved-the Federal Aviation Agency, which was in charge of traffic control, United Airlines, and TWA as well. It mattered not a bit...
Stronger Reality. Erhard gave qualified blessing to the further exploration of an East-West détente, with the admonition that both sides remember a cardinal need: a solution to the problem of divided Germany. "We are told that division of our country is a 'reality' which has...