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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...
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...
Now 74 and reportedly in ill health, Beran is not expected to take possession of his see. His release along with his fellow bishops was obviously designed to provide a favorable image for a new government faced with public unrest over economic troubles. It also stirred hope again that Cardinal...