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...many of these same clergy and laymen describe Paul as a puzzle, an enigma, a Hamlet. "He has such a blah personality," complains one New York suburban housewife. A baffled Jesuit philosopher says: "I feel like a bull in a ring. Sometimes he goes one way, and I try to follow him, and then he goes the other way. Cagey, amorphous personalities make me unhappy." Many Catholic progressives are now convinced that Paul has deliberately sided all along with the conservative Curia, and they openly resent it. Austrian Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person...
...third session last year, he upheld the right of nearly 200 conservatives to prevent a vote on the declaration on religious liberty, even though more than 1,000 prelates petitioned him "most urgently" for approval. At the time, council progressives were horrified. As things have turned out now, even Jesuit John Courtney Murray, a principal architect of the declaration, agrees that the text before the fathers at the fourth session is stronger than ever (see box). "The losers won a delay," says Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. "The winners won a document." Last week...
...gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...
Abolition & Prohibition. Today, unquestionably, the purposes of religion and government are more common than cross. Los Angeles Jesuit James Vizzard calls this new era of good feeling "a coalition of conscience and power." It marks a new phase in U.S. church-state relations, which has seen, as a National Council of Churches study committee put it last year, "both separation and interaction, harmony and tension...
...Colliflower chose jail-and thereby aroused the sympathy of the Rev. Francis Conklin, a Jesuit law professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Claiming a patent denial of due process, Father Conklin petitioned Montana's U.S. District Judge William J. Jameson to spring Mrs. Colliflower on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jameson dismissed the case on the ground that he was "without jurisdiction...