Word: diocesans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring to church but how much impact you make." Cromey's mission has made its impact with colorful street processions on major church festivals, a wide range of new youth programs. His next project: a storefront submission in the 90%-Negro Hunters Point area. In addition to diocesan funds, Cromey hopes to get financial help from some wealthy suburban parish; he believes that "the suburban churches will have to pay the bills for the Inner City for some time to come...
...Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over four white candidates on the first ballot at a convention of diocesan priests last September...
...informal theological seminary was the bishops' own idea. "Dean" of the school is William Fanning, editor of the New York diocesan weekly, the Catholic News. The ''faculty.'' whose number varies from eight to twelve, included some official council delegates with impressive qualifications for interpreting and expanding the council's meager releases...
...STRUCTURE OF DIOCESES. Some of the bitterest infighting of the council may well come over the problem of remapping diocesan boundaries. Italy, with 48 million Catholics, has 260 bishops, some with only a handful of priests serving them; West Germany, with 23 million Catholics, has only 21 dioceses. The council is expected to approve in principle procedures for suppressing small sees and gradually dividing up such cumbersome jurisdictions as Mexico City (the world's largest diocese, with 4,800,000 Catholics) and New York, where Francis Cardinal Spellman needs ten auxiliary bishops to help govern...
...parts of the Mass into the vernacular; yet last winter he issued a strongly worded Apostolic Constitution that forbade priests to write against the use of Latin in the liturgy. "If John is a liberal who is simply making concessions to the Vatican," complains the editor of a Catholic diocesan weekly in the U.S., "give me a conservative who will make a few concessions to the liberals...