Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis of faith has overtaken the churches more rigorous, perhaps, than was ever true before. Structures of church life and congregational worship are under serious questioning. The Bible has increasingly ceased to be a book to be listened to. It is asked whether even Jesus points beyond man to God. And yet, just because this is the situation, God's promise to make new must become explosive in our midst...
...Orthodox churches, most of which were admitted to the WCC at its last assembly, and whose 140 voting delegates at Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single bloc. The ecumenical movement has slowed in the face of continued differences over fundamental issues of faith. Potentially most serious of all for the WCC is the emergence of "underground churches," in which growing numbers of Christians worship in far-out manners and modes that represent a revolt against the more rigid religious superstructure of the World Council...
...pugnacious faith in the old virtues came naturally to McCaffrey. He was born of Irish immigrant stock and reared in the melting-pot atmosphere of The Bronx. Later he was awarded the Silver Star and Croix de guerre for his heroism in the trenches of France as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. Even before he came to Holy Cross in 1932, succeeding the late Father Francis P. Duffy (who won fame with the "Fighting 69th" Regiment back when that was an honorable number), McCaffrey honed his appreciation of law enforcement as chaplain to New York...
...PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. The Pope reaffirmed the unchallengeable authority of his office: "We believe in the infallibility enjoyed by the successor of Peter when he teaches ex cathedra [that is, solemnly on matters of faith and morals] as pastor and teacher of all the faithful, and which is assured also to the episcopal body when it exercises with him the supreme magisterium." Thus his only concession in the entire credo was a nod in favor of the concept of collegiality, approved by Vatican II, under which bishops and cardinals can more fully share power with the Pope. Paul also expressed...
...entered in official Vatican documents, will be just as binding-in theory-on all Catholics as the Church's earlier creeds. To some Catholic leaders, it was comforting. "In these troubled times," said New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke, "it is helpful to have reassurance of faith. The Holy Father gave us just that." But many liberal members of the Pope's flock were dismayed by the new document's archaic theology and terminology, which they felt would do little to make Christianity more relevant to modern man. Commented the Dutch Catholic newspaper De Tijd...