Word: diocesans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canceling all audiences, Pope John retreated to his recently restored summer apartments in the Vatican's 9th century Tower of San Giovanni for a week of prayer. On three days last week, every employee, cleric and layman alike, in the Vatican and diocesan chancery of Rome attended special services to offer prayers for the council's success. In dioceses around the world, Catholics joined in special novenas, asking the blessing of God upon the deliberations of the fathers. Uncounted millions of Protestants, asked by their leaders to pray for the council, prayed that it become a landmark...
...Yves Congar-have started to think out a "theology of the laity," based on the Pauline doctrine of the "priesthood of the faithful." Sensing the temper of the times, such farsighted prelates as Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger and Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing have established diocesan advisory councils of laymen...
Religious Illiteracy. For many Catholic parents, the hard choice is between ill-equipped, overcrowded parochial schools and public schools that threaten Catholic children with what Pittsburgh's diocesan school superintendent, the Very Rev. Msgr. John B. McDowell, calls "religious illiteracy." McDowell also warns that non-Catholics in many areas face an equal problem if Catholics are forced to cut back their own schools and thousands of youngsters flood the public schools...
...labs, gyms, cafeterias) handling twice as many "value-oriented" students via half-day sessions. As Catholics see it, a controlled Catholic influx would also make public schools more representative of the community. If other churches also built shared-time schools, suggests the Very Rev. Msgr. Arthur T. Geoghegan, diocesan school superintendent in Providence, R.I., "the drift of secularism might be checked...
Balancing Claims. Pope John's appointments neatly balanced the claims of liberals and conservatives, Vatican professionals and diocesan prelates from the international church. Each of the ten commissions that will prepare the formal decrees has a Curia prelate at its head-but two-thirds of the 24 members of the commission will be chosen by the bishops. On the presidential council of ten cardinals, who will take turns as chairmen of the sessions, the Pope named only one outright resister to change-Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo. He filled the council with such middle-of-the-road prelates...