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Last week in Philadelphia, about 13,000 "litniks," as liturgical reformers are sometimes called, gathered for the 24th annual North American Liturgical Week. There they honored Minnesota's Benedictine Father Godfrey Diekmann, 55, a pioneer promoter of liturgical reform during his 25 years as editor of the monthly journal Worship. The most compelling problem confronting the conferees was one that indicated the growing importance of liturgical reform in the Roman Catholic Church: how to educate parishes to the changes in worship that are certain to be ordered by the council...
Barred from a student lecture series at C.U. last month were four eminent Catholic intellectuals, including two of the nation's top Jesuit theologians, Fathers Gustave Weigel and John Courtney Murray; a noted Benedictine liturgical scholar, Father Godfrey Diekmann; and one of the official theologians at the Vatican Council, Germany's Father Hans Küng. To Monsignor William J. McDonald, rector of Catholic University of America, giving a forum to these scholars might seem to place his school on the liberal side in debate at the council (now in adjournment until September)-and he did not want...
With reference to Catholic University's banning Fathers Diekmann, Küng, Murray and Weigel [Feb. 22]: it's the same old, old, wearisome story, the clerical club replaces thought...
Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., is the foremost U.S. Catholic student of the intellectual problems surrounding church-state relations. His fellow Jesuit, Father Gustave Weigel. is a ranking expert on ecclesiology and ecumenicism, and a consultant to the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Father Godfrey Diekmann, of St. John's Abbey in Minnesota, is a distinguished Benedictine liturgical scholar. Swiss-born Hans Küng of the University of Tübingen is one of the most exciting Catholic thinkers to emerge from Germany since World War II, and one of the select few official theologians at the Council...
Last month the Graduate Student Council of Catholic University in Washington submitted all these names on a list of a dozen speakers it proposed to invite for an extracurricular lecture series. Last week Monsignor Joseph McAllister, the university's vice rector, acknowledged that he had rejected Murray, Weigel, Diekmann and Küng. Reason: all have been "outspoken on matters of concern to the Vatican Council" (which is currently in adjournment), and he did not think that the university should give them a public platform...