Word: dopfner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eminence Julius Cardinal Dopfner was the youngest bishop in Europe at the age of 35; ten years later, in 1958, he became the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. Today he governs the powerful See of Munich, and was one of four prelates chosen by Pope Paul VI as "moderators" to oversee the debates at the second session of the Vatican Council. Last week he made the most direct statement yet by any cardinal on the need for a genuine reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and defined that reformation-already begun, but as yet unfinished-as the true...
...When Dopfner speaks, others listen, and 2,800 people-including priests, foreign diplomats and non-Catholic clergy-gathered in Munich's Congress Hall to hear him. It turned out to be, said one excited Lutheran churchman after ward, "the first time anyone so high up in the Catholic hierarchy has made a speech quite so daring...
Superannuated Souvenir. "Masses of the faithful have been lost," said Dopfner, because to many the Catholic Church appeared as "an institution that enslaved freedom" and as a "superannuated souvenir from a past age." It spoke to man in an ancient tongue, through incomprehensible rituals, in preaching concepts that have no relation to current life. Instead of penetrating the world, the church seemed to sit "in a self-imposed ghetto, trying to build its own small world adjoining the big world." Tied to "antiquated forms," Catholicism often gave the appearance of resenting the inescapable presence of ideological pluralism, political democracy...
...deadlock. The bishops approved Suenens' proposals in favor of collegiality. They turned down a Curia-sponsored move to make the Virgin Mary a major subject of debate, and passed a Curia-opposed proposal to revive the order of deacons in the church. With Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner, one of the four moderators, gaveling them onward, the bishops quickly approved a chapter in the liturgical schema on sacred art that approved "modern" art but condemned extreme abstractionism. This week they moved on to debate a second key schema that pinpoints the division of rights and duties...
...given "executive mandate" by the Pope to supervise the debates. One member of the quartet-Gregory Peter Agagianian -is a Curia moderate who favors a measure of church renewal. The other three are among the most vocal "progressive" members of the council-Belgium's Leo Josef Suenens, Julius Dopfner of Munich and Giacomo Ler-caro of Bologna...