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...other Christian bodies agreed. In reality, most of these votes simply rubber-stamped ideas that had been approved in principle at the 1962 session. The rest of the time, the bishops listened to a repetitious debate on the first item on the session's agenda, the schema De Ecclesia (On the Church). Few of the fathers could follow the Latin debates, and there was a significant upsurge of business at St. Peter's coffee bars. Richard Cardinal Gushing went home to his $7,000-a-day charity fund-raising in Boston...
...quartet was limited by twelve cardinal presidents, who acted as a kind of Supreme Court for the council. And the moderators also had no real authority over the important theological commission, governed by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office. This commission was charged with rewriting the schema De Ecclesia; but it soon became clear that Ottaviani was violently opposed to incorporating in it an idea supported by a majority of the bishops: the notion of collegiality...
This organizational change will complement a theological reform that presumably will be enacted by the council in the first item on the session's agenda: De Ecclesia (On the Church). Since the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, bishops have often seemed to be little more than Vatican errand boys. Yet the traditional teaching of the church is that bishops are just as truly descendants of the apostles as the Pope -a doctrine that will be brought out with new clarity in De Ecclesia...
Charged Pastor Merle G. Franke of Chicago in a recent issue of the Lutheran magazine Ecclesia Plantanda: "One of the most disturbing elements in the church today is the deterioration in the art of preaching." But Dr. Kyle Haselden, who reads as many as 50 sermons a week as editor of the nondenominational magazine The Pulpit, defends his contemporaries. Says he: "The level of preaching in Protestant churches is higher than in the past." Squirming in the Pews. The standout preachers of the past, says the Rev. Walfred Erickson, of suburban Seattle's Clyde Hill Baptist Church...
...dogmas of -the church and the formal system of thought laid down by St. Thomas Aquinas. ¶ NATIONALISM. Pope Pius laid claim once more to the church's status as the supranational community, nourishing the shallow roots of secular internationalism ("The Church is a mother - Sancta Mater Ecclesia-a true mother, mother of all nations and all peoples"). As he saw the colonial peoples rise, he laid increasing stress on substituting native priests for missionaries-and promoting them to bishops wherever possible...