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...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...
...conservatives took out their wrath in the kind of paper warfare scholars love: footnote-stippled articles in somber technical journals that few laymen ever see. Their principal target was Rome's Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute, one of the two institutions in the world where Catholics can get a degree to teach Scripture.* In a series of finger-wagging papers, monsignori attached to Rome's Curia-principally Paolo Cecchetti, Antonino Romeo and Antonio Piolanti-began hinting that certain teachers...
...Biblicum, dismissed the attacks as "systematically deformed calumnies"; yet it soon became clear that his enemies were well placed. In 1961 the Holy Office issued a monitum (warning) against excesses in Catholic Scriptural interpretation. Last June the Holy Office ordered two of the Biblicum's New Testament scholars, Jesuit Fathers Maximilian Zerwick and Stanislaus Lyonnet, suspended from their teaching assignments. At a victory celebration in a Rome pensione that night, one Curia official gleefully said: "This time we shall break their monopoly." Every bishop arriving in Rome for the Vatican Council last fall was handed a pamphlet, written...
...Revue Biblique put out by the Ecole Biblique - which are read and respected by scholars of all faiths. Protestant Bible students have high regard for the work of such men as Catholic University's Semitics expert, Monsignor Patrick Skehan, Father David Stanley of the State University of Iowa, Jesuit John McKenzie of Loyola University of Chicago. Says W. D. Davies, professor of Biblical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "I wouldn't dream of undertaking a scholarly work without studying what Catholics have done first." Catholics and Protestants still disagree on the theological interpretation of many...
...lure professors, Walsh unabashedly raids other schools, offering salaries as high as $16,000, plus a climate of intimate scholarship and access to the riches of nearby M.I.T. and Harvard. Clerical interference is apparently no B.C. problem. All of its controlling trustees are Jesuits; the faculty has 143 of them, the world's biggest Jesuit teaching community. But the total faculty of 750 is full of non-Catholics, and free expression is the B.C. fashion. Washington's Catholic University recently banned a proposed speech by Germany's liberal Theologian Hans Kiing; Boston College warmly welcomed him, having...