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Worried by this vulnerability, the Vat ican Council urged diocesan bishops as well as parish priests who are "less capa ble of fulfilling their duties properly be cause of the increasing burden of age or some other serious reason" to resign voluntarily from office. Last month Pope Paul VI, who is 69, "earnestly request ed" that bishops and priests leave office on their own initiative...
...least likely winners in a field of eight. But as a deadlock developed among liberals, moderates, and a minority of conservatives, Myers took on strength as a compromise choice. He was elected after midnight on the ninth ballot by the required majorities of both the 180 diocesan clergymen and the 500 lay delegates...
...Worker in Purple." Myers inherits a see that includes ten counties around San Francisco and has 103,000 church members. Under Pike's yeasty eight-year stewardship, the number of clergy has almost doubled, the diocesan budget is up from $349,000 to $894,000-and the deficit may reach $80,000 this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere...
...Action members two weeks ago took part in a demonstration of 3,500 Madrid workers seeking higher wages. Priests and seminarians seem almost equally restive, in search of change and experiment. In San Sebastian, for example, after students for the priesthood refused to attend certain spiritual exercises at the diocesan seminary, Bishop Lorenzo Bereciaurta closed down its theological department and expelled five of the rebels. And in a suburb of troublesome Barcelona last week, five priests opened a motorcycle repair shop in a slum, boldly announcing that they intended to become "worker priests...
...march in sympathy. The National Council of Churches formally endorsed the strike in a statement written by Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, the first vice president of the council and president of the University of Oregon. McGucken sent three official representatives to join the march, while Pike's diocesan Intergroup Relations Committee sponsored a collection of food, clothing and money for the strikers. In a number of U.S. cities, clergymen urged their laymen to boycott Schenley products...