Word: jesuits
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Died. Augustin Cardinal Bea, 87, brilliant Jesuit theologian who established the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity in 1960 and labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned...
...Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine America, makes the point that 100 years ago "the Irish were the riot makers of America par excellence...
Schillebeeckx has not yet decided whether to attend the hearing. If the Vatican pursues the case, he will have two powerful allies in his corner. His friend, German Jesuit Karl Rahner, who is Schillebeeckx's only peer as a speculative theologian, has been appointed as his court defender. And Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht has made it clear that a condemnation of Schillebeeckx would be an unwarranted condemnation of the entire Dutch church...
...almost indecently abusive. Father Alfons Sarrach, a German priest-journalist, described the encyclical as "a breath of outdated and ignorant monkish theology." Many more of the outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this...
...Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie of Notre Dame believes that "with this pronouncement on birth control, the papacy is going to lose its leadership, which will take 200 years to recover-if ever." Although the downgrading of papal authority would unquestionably lead to a period of confusion within the church, some progressive Catholics contend that dissolution of the papacy as an absolute monarchy would lead to a new and healthier concept of what authority is. The church of the Bible, they argue, was not an authoritarian state but a community of shared decisions, which were not made by the hierarchy...