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Pursuit of Dialogue. Every section of the schema unfolds one or more ideas with revolutionary implications for Catholicism. The introduction notes the need for the church to recognize "the signs of the times." Chapter 1 warns that Christians should not reject this world for the sake of the next: "Anyone who is unwilling to be of service in the renewal of the world is seeking God in vain." A second chapter expresses Catholic willingness to renounce ancient rights when new circumstances demand it. In the third chapter, Christians are urged to "pursue the dialogue with all men of good will...
What will most intimately affect Catholics is the fourth chapter, a discussion of major world problems, which follows the tone and spirit of Pope John's encyclicals, Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris. A section on economic and social order amplifies John's dream of humane socialization; it argues that "economic development must in no case be left entirely to itself," and "the earth's goods are the common inheritance of the whole human race." A section on peace warns that "the use of nuclear weapons must be judged before God and man as most wicked...
Cutting across party lines, the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action has endorsed two Democrats, Senator Edward M. Kennedy and State Secretary Kevin H. White, and a Republican, Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, for state-wide office...
...theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives who had already spoken out against the declaration at the council...
...polite reaffirmation of the "Nonviolent" in SNCC's title and a warning that if violence is not to take over in the movement, the government must begin to act. The usual section on the incompatibility of whites and Negroes in the civil rights movement is replaced by a chapter describing how individual white men have won the respect of Negroes who never expected to feel anything but hate for whites. Another chapter argues for government action to protect civil rights workers against local police and sheriffs...