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...Ecumenical Council proposed by Pope John XXIII will not result in the unity of Christendom unless major Catholic doctrine is withdrawn, Frank M. Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, said last night...
Cross added that he supports the unity of Christendom with plurality of doctrine. "The differences which exist enrich the church," he said. "I would like to see the Roman Catholic Church join a movement such as the World Council of Churches...
...portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
...subject A Faith for Our World, Newbigin related the China problem to Arnold Toynbee's criticisms of the Church. Newbigin agreed with one point of Toynbee's: That Christianity, it it is to become such a world faith, must lose its western "provincialness" of appeal, and must show Christendom to be a "colony of heaven, not of the white race...
...great altar in St. Peter's, where only the Pope may say Mass, the body of Pius XII lay in state for three days. Then, after final absolution, it was placed in a triple coffin (oak, lead and cypress) and interred in the most sacred spot in Christendom-below the Bernini altar near St. Peter's supposed grave, whose discovery the Pope himself announced in 1950. Buried with the Pope was a red bag containing a sample of every Vatican coin minted during his reign, a parchment copy of the eulogy read at the final funeral Mass...