Word: felici
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...Vatican has apparently been compiling a dossier on Schillebeeckx since 1961, when he wrote a pastoral letter, signed by the Dutch bishops, that proposed decentralization of authority in the church. Matters came to a head last July, when Monsignor Angelo Felici, the papal internuncio to The Netherlands, suggested to Schillebeeckx that he might help rehabilitate himself by introducing the Pope's birth control encyclical on Dutch television. Schillebeeckx refused. He has been dropped from lectures and other public functions sponsored by the Dominican order...
Quintet of Questions. Meetings of the synod will take place in the Vatican's "Cantina delle Teste Rotte" (Cellar of Broken Heads).&* Two of three presiding officers at the meetings-William Cardinal Conway of Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as conservatives. The agenda ignores the two most bothersome issues facing the church today-priestly celibacy and birth control. Instead, the bishops are expected to focus on a quintet of less pressing questions: canon-law reform, updating doctrine, seminary renewal, mixed marriages and liturgy...
...latest curial maneuver came to light in a letter that Augustin Cardinal Bea gloomily read out to the bishops and theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives...
Ominous Title. Felici's ambiguously phrased letter implied that these directions had come directly from Pope Paul VI himself. Actually, as Bea and his secretariat soon discovered, the letter did not have papal approval. The suggestions had come from Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, who had no authority of his own to give the orders, despite his important roles as Vatican Secretary of State and president of the Council's Coordinating Commission...
When this became known, seven progressive cardinals, among them Albert Meyer of Chicago and Joseph Ritter of St. Louis, met at the Roman residence of Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings to draft a memo to the Pope ominously entitled Cum Magno Dolore (With Great Sorrow). It protested Felici's directives on the two declarations, as well as two other recent and repressive curial moves: a threat to end the council at the end of the current third session and an attempt to water down the passage in De Ecclesia defining the authority of the bishops over the church...