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...XXIII summoned the Second Vatican Council to meet next October, the Vatican announced that nonCatholics would be invited to send representatives as nonvoting delegates. The job of figuring out who should come and in what capacity was left largely to Augustin Cardinal Bea (TIME, July 6), the wise old Jesuit who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. To avoid the diplomatic fiasco that marred the first Vatican Council,*Bea and his assistant, Dutch Msgr. Willebrands, spent long hours conferring with Protestant and Orthodox churchmen, made it clear that invitations would go only to those who wanted...
Debt to Protestants. The son of a carpenter, Bea was born in Baden, became a Jesuit because "I was much inclined to the scholarly life." He was made professor of scripture in 1917 at Valkenburg, the Jesuit house of studies in The Netherlands, and four years later became provincial of the Jesuits' Upper German Province. That job did not last long. One day, the Jesuit general asked Bea why he was not sending more of his promising students to Rome. When Bea replied, "Because we have better schools here." the general made him superior of the Jesuit house...
...Roman Catholic Church, the Pope has all but complete authority to appoint any priest to the rank of bishop,* and the Catholics in the diocese must accept the appointed bishop's ecclesiastical authority. Last week Jesuit Theologian John Walsh suggested that the upcoming Second Vatican Council might well think about letting laymen have a hand in choosing their spiritual chiefs. Speaking at Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to a group of lay Catholics, Father Walsh pointed out that the laity had some hand in electing bishops for the first 1,000 years of the church...
Many of them seem to have a common purpose: to consolidate the best historical and cultural learning of igth century "liberal" theology with the most relevant doctrinal insights of 20th century "neo-orthodoxy." Says an impartial but interested observer, Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel: "The generation of our day is on principle open-minded, and genuinely scholarly by the revived standards of scholarly investigation." Five...
Oppressive Aftermath. In fact. Nagasakians point out with relish, few Westerners had ever heard of Hiroshima before 1945, whereas their city has been known to missionaries, traders and sailors since 1549, when Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier landed near by for a two-year stay in Japan. For 2½ centuries, Nagasaki was Japan's only gateway to the Western world. Long before 1853, when U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and ended Japan's era of seclusion, European traders had introduced Nagasaki's citizens to Western literature, science and business methods...