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This consensus, Reid adds, acknowledged the insights of thinkers who, before the council, were considered almost an underground minority-such as U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, whose theories on church-state relations provided background for the religious-liberty statement. In the wake of this progressive victory has come what Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of Nijmegen University calls "the triumph of anti-triumphal ism"-the rejection by the council of the world-hating, anathema-hurling Counter Reformation conviction that Catholicism alone possessed the truth of life. In contrast to past councils, which devoted much of their time consigning to eternal flames those...
...gradually introduced into U.S. churches, asked Catholics not to condemn but to "promote what is morally and artistically good" in movies. The ranks of Legion reviewers, previously dominated by a coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae, were expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs, ranging from Jesuit professors of communications arts to English teachers, writers and admen...
...example of this sometimes disconcerting blend of past and present. Fichter was appointed to the Divinity School faculty this fall as Chauncy Stillman Professor of Catholic Studies. But unlike his predecessors, who lectured in medieval history, Fichter holds a Harvard Ph.D. in sociology. Although he is a Jesuit, he admits he "can't remember the last time I read Thomas Aquinas...
Soup When David Miller, 22, graduated from Syracuse's Jesuit-run Le Moyne College last June, he headed for New York and went to work without pay in a Bowery-area soup kitchen run by the Catholic Worker movement, a charita ble group that is also passionately paci fist. In mid-October Miller got out of the kitchen long enough to land in the soup...
...ambiguous this document will be in its final wording remains to be seen. Italian Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni, one of the council's most outspoken conservatives, has submitted a host of amendments seeking to emphasize the truth of Catholic thinking and the error of other views. U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, who is regarded as the architect of the declaration, has had bishop friends propose amendments strengthening it. And the council has yet to hear from Paul, who has a great sense of compassion for the conservatives and is eager to nourish their support for church renewal...