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From the reception room of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a waiting monsignor led the visitor to a turn-of-the-century elevator. They rode down several floors, walked through rooms lined with musty, leather-bound volumes, entered yet another gloomy room. Across a heavy wooden table, decorated only with an austere black crucifix, sat a man in a black, violet-trimmed cassock. The visitor presented himself. "I am Illich...
...inch of progress is an accurate measure of what the Vatican has tried to accomplish in other areas of Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...
...emotional defense of Jackie by Cushing-who had presided at her first wedding in 1953 and at John Kennedy's funeral ten years later-was not very well received in Rome either. Before Cushing spoke out, the Vatican's chief press officer, Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, had expressed the church's official view that Jackie had "knowingly violated the law of the church" and was ineligible to receive the sacraments. Although reluctant to dispute a cardinal, Vatican theologians simply reiterated their interpretation of the church's law after Cushing's statement...
...Vatican has apparently been compiling a dossier on Schillebeeckx since 1961, when he wrote a pastoral letter, signed by the Dutch bishops, that proposed decentralization of authority in the church. Matters came to a head last July, when Monsignor Angelo Felici, the papal internuncio to The Netherlands, suggested to Schillebeeckx that he might help rehabilitate himself by introducing the Pope's birth control encyclical on Dutch television. Schillebeeckx refused. He has been dropped from lectures and other public functions sponsored by the Dominican order...
...Being a modern young Benedictine monk, I would say that Walter Holmes's "minimedievals" [July 5] look a lot better than our "maximedievals." I also believe that Monsignor Joseph Snee's remark was unjust and that he should examine his own morals and not those of women who wear the latest mod garb...