Word: hertogenbosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...