Word: hertogenbosch
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...embarrassingly small and unenthusiastic turnouts almost seemed to amount to a nationwide boycott. Instead of the hoped-for 50,000 people at the Eindhoven airport welcome, there were 7,000. In 's Hertogenbosch, parking was provided for 80,000 cars; 8,000 people were on hand. About 50,000 worshipers, most of them elderly, clustered before the huge altar at the open-air Mass in Maastricht, in the southern Catholic heartland; 150,000 had been expected. Some commentators explained that it is difficult these days to get the Dutch to leave their homes for any public event. Nonetheless, there...
...another departure, during a speech in 's Hertogenbosch, John Paul defensively explained his recent appointments to the hierarchy. It was the first time a Pope has done so in public. He acknowledged the local unrest and disappointment over his February naming of conservative Bishop Johannes ter Schure, 62. "Believe me, brothers and sisters, this suffering on account of the church grieves me," said the Pontiff. But "in the final analysis, the Pope has to make the decisions...
Died. Bishop Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers, 58, progressive leader of The Netherlands' largest Roman Catholic diocese at 's Hertogenbosch, who worked tirelessly for a more liberal church attitude, calling birth control a matter of conscience, and defending priests who renounced their vows in order to marry, all of which made him an urgent voice for reform during the ecumenical Council; of a brain tumor; in Tilburg, The Netherlands...
...ceremonies have taken place in the methodically unity-seeking Netherlands. Last April in Amsterdam, for example, a Dutch Jesuit and a Lutheran minister presided over the wedding of the minister's daughter to a Catholic boy in a Lutheran church. Dutch Catholic Bishop Willem Bekkers of 's-Hertogenbosch has twice allowed Reformed pastors to assist Catholic priests at mixed marriages; the couples promised only to bring up their children as "Christians...
...couples. "It is the single most important cause for defection from the sacraments among the younger generation of German Catholics," says Theologian Werner Scholl-gen of Bonn University. U.S. bishops and priests have yet to give much attention to the problem, but Dutch Bishop Willem Bekkers of 's Hertogenbosch says: "If I see people in church not receiving the Eucharist, and I know they are the kind of people who should be, then I say this is reason for reconsidering the entire question...