Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renewal elite." It includes bishops, priests, seminarians and sisters, but its driving force is a young, college-trained laity that accepts the church's essential mysteries and matters of faith while questioning the authoritarian way moral theologians reduce these dogmas to terms of practical behavior. As one California Jesuit puts it, "The catechism answers don't satisfy any more -thank...
...reason that Cushing has proved so open to church renewal is his freedom from what one reform-minded layman calls "Chancery Catholicism." "Cushing doesn't give a damn for canon law or moral theology," says a Jesuit from the College of the Holy Cross. "He has no tolerance for any kind of legalism in the church." Although many of his priests are perfectly content with a "service-station liturgy" in Latin, Cushing has required every parish to install the dialogue Mass, and openly champions the new English translation of much of the Mass, which will be introduced across...
...Please Confirm." A Jesuit priest born of English parents in Le Havre, Roberts once headed an archdiocese -but gave it up. In 1937, while teaching in Liverpool, he was told by a reporter of-his appointment as Archbishop of Bombay. Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the appointment. Thirteen years later, having become convinced that India's principal see ought to be occupied by an Indian, he resigned in favor of Valerian Gracias, and settled down at the Farm Street church in London's Mayfair...
...seeks to integrate a nun's spiritual and educational training. One current debate within the conference involves this spiritual training; some religious superiors, like Mother Regina of the Sisters of Mercy, believe that the conference should take its norms from the zealous Better World Movement, founded by Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi...
...Ekberg-Barker wedding was the first of its kind in the U.S., although similar experiments in ecumenical marriage 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...