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Principal forum for Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, chief of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, was Harvard's Sanders Theater, where a hushed overflow audience listened intently to his message. Bea's three lectures were part of an impressive four-day theological colloquium, inspired by the Vatican Council and attended by 150 of the nation's leading Protestant and Catholic scholars. Said Harvard's President Nathan Pusey: "We thought it would be perhaps a hundred years before we could come to the kind of occasion we have here...
...aged German cardinal, still obviously quick in mind and bright in spirit, told his large Sanders audience --including the 150 scholars and theologians participating in the Roman Catholic-Protestant Colloquium--that the ecumenical movement has had "a significant and happy beginning, one full of promise for the future...
Meanwhile, the hard-core theological discussions of the Colloquium will go forward this morning, as the assembled scholars and theologians meet in four discussion groups centering on selected critical issues
...purpose of the Colloquium, as President Pusey and Dean Miller have made clear, is not to solve the problem of Christian unity, but to promote just this interchange of ideas, and to treat current theological issues with scholarly perspective. It is a process consistent with the highest aims of the University...
Despite the appearance of Walter Judd and 11 other speakers, who be walled "the plight of the individual in mass society," last weekend's Yale Challenge colloquium attracted 500 fewer listeners than last year...