Word: diocesan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says that there are 44.8 million Roman Catholics in the U.S. Actually, there may be 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 more than that, for, as one bishop points out, the directory's figures come from parish priests who underestimate the size of their flocks to keep diocesan assessments...
Virtually every Jewish organization in the U.S. applauded the initial court decision on school prayer, while Roman Catholic opinion has shifted from open opposition to guarded approval. A new survey of diocesan papers by the Catholic weekly Ave Maria revealed that 35 have gone on record opposing any congressional action to overturn the court decisions, while only eight favor it; two years ago, a big majority of the same papers attacked the Supreme Court's ruling on the New York State Board of Regents' prayer. Meanwhile, the church leaders who oppose the court decisions are fewer, although they...
...Wittenberg Castle Church. The Rev. Francis J. Connell, former dean of the School of Sacred Theology at Catholic University, said that the article was "absolutely contrary to the teaching of the church in this area." In a rebuttal of Janssens' thesis that was printed by many diocesan papers, Jesuit Father Edward Duff wrote that "no established Catholic theologian is on record as agreeing with...
Religious barriers hardly exist any more in church publishing. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford writes for the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal, and Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan is a regular columnist for Denver's Catholic diocesan weekly, the Register. Last week Pittsburgh's Catholic Duquesne University Press published a new Journal of Ecumenical Studies; the editors include Brown, Catholic Theologians Hans Kung and Gregory Baum, Lutheran George Lindbeck...
...thousands of Sunday-Mass Catholics who became daily communicants and gave countless leisure hours to work for the church. Some clerics who distrusted the "Spanish" intensity of the course have changed their minds after undergoing a Cursillo. Says the Rev. Francis Norris, a theologian at San Francisco's diocesan seminary: "I must confess that my deepest experience of our common life in Christ took place during the Cursillo...