Word: monsignors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biblicum were skirting heresy. The attack was picked up by the arch-conservative American Ecclesiastical Review, edited by Monsignor Joseph Fenton of Catholic University, which began publishing articles that charged certain U.S. scholars with endangering the faith...
...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 by Monsignor Francesco Spadafora of the conservative Lateran University, asking that the fathers condemn the methods employed by Biblical critics...
...Catholic interest in the Bible. There are interesting new Catholic magazines on Scripture aimed at laymen, and thousands of parishes have organized Bible study groups for their parishioners. Non-Catholic scholars readily grant the quality of such modern Catholic Bibles as the English translations prepared by the late Monsignor Ronald Knox and the U.S.'s still-incomplete Confraternity editions, both of which were designed to replace the classic but archaic Douay version. A religious bestseller (more than 1.000,000 copies) is the French Jerusalem Bible, translated by the staff of Ecole Biblique, a respected center for Biblical research...
...were four eminent Catholic intellectuals, including two of the nation's top Jesuit theologians, Fathers Gustave Weigel and John Courtney Murray; a noted Benedictine liturgical scholar, Father Godfrey Diekmann; and one of the official theologians at the Vatican Council, Germany's Father Hans Küng. To Monsignor William J. McDonald, rector of Catholic University of America, giving a forum to these scholars might seem to place his school on the liberal side in debate at the council (now in adjournment until September)-and he did not want the school to be on any side...
...faculty members appealed McDonald's "speaker ban" to the 40-man board of trustees, which consists of all U.S. cardinals and archbishops, plus five bishops and six laymen. And where at first it seemed that only one incident was at issue, C.U.'s eminent church historian, Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, went on to charge that "for nearly a decade, this type of suppression has been going on constantly at this university...