Word: diocesan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain parishes "redundant"-that is, they withdraw recognition of the church, order its old doors locked, and if no other use can be found, declare the building ready for demolition. "The church is for people; it is not a society for the preservation of ancient monuments," said a recent diocesan report in Lincolnshire, where 57 rural parishes have already been declared redundant and 100 others are on the brink of that fate...
...with a stovepipe sticking drunkenly out of a window." Change was the shallowest of facades, mostly visible as ruin. A "cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office. But the real power still rested with the bishop in his diocesan quarters-marble floors, red plush draperies, gold-framed loveseats-and with those few petty officials, from policeman to tax collector, anciently privileged to corruption...
...Because of declining interest in the traditional church, "many of the auxiliary institutions of American Catholicism will suffer. Diocesan papers, publishing houses, book stores, magazines, etc., will be hard hit, and many will disappear from the scene...
...would be too much to hope-or fear -that the church is on the verge of a second Reformation. There is little question, however, that it is suffering from an internal rebellion of critical proportions. Priest-Sociologist Andrew Greeley of Chicago, in a recent column for U.S. diocesan newspapers, quoted a bishop as saying that there are two Catholicisms-an "official church" belonging to the Pope and hierarchy, and an undefined "free church," which is attracting a growing number of laymen and priests. Similarly, Paulist Father...
Ironically, Helmsing had helped found NCR, which started as an offshoot of Kansas City's diocesan newspaper. But as the NCR became more adventurous in its reporting and criticism, relations between the bishop and the papers staff became strained. In his indictment, Helmsing formally charged that the paper "has made itself a platform for the airing of heretical views." Specifically, the bishop attacked an essay by Theologian Rosemary Ruether (TIME, April 19) denying the perpetual virginity of Mary, and a column by Philosopher-Journalist Daniel Callahan written after the Pope's encyclical on birth control, which recommended that...