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...council objecting to the presence of the Russians, tactfully brought up the subject of Archbishop Slipyi's long confinement. The Russians promised to do what they could, and last month notified Cardinal Bea that Slipyi would be freed. A fortnight ago, Bea's chief assistant. Dutch Monsignor Jan Willebrands, flew secretly to Moscow, escorted Slipyi by train to Vienna and then on to Rome. Slipyi had a personal audience with the Pope, has since been resting at the Byzantine-rite monastery of Grottaferrata. 15 miles southeast of Rome. He hopes eventually to return to Lvov...
Last month the Graduate Student Council of Catholic University in Washington submitted all these names on a list of a dozen speakers it proposed to invite for an extracurricular lecture series. Last week Monsignor Joseph McAllister, the university's vice rector, acknowledged that he had rejected Murray, Weigel, Diekmann and Küng. Reason: all have been "outspoken on matters of concern to the Vatican Council" (which is currently in adjournment), and he did not think that the university should give them a public platform...
Remembering the Slogan. Written by Monsignor Germán Guzmán Campos, 50, who has spent almost all his life among the backlands peasantry, the book traces the slaughter back to 1948, when 18 years of sporadic fighting between the bitterly antagonistic Liberal and Conservative parties was climaxed by the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. "His voice," says Guzmán, "was the cry of the rural people, who upon hearing of his death, remembered his historic slogan...
Pope John let the Curia have its way. To Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing, he explained: "Sono net sacco qui"?"I'm in a bag here." But when the council fathers arrived in Rome, they began getting discreet telephone calls from Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary, subtly disassociating the Pope from the Curia. The progressives among the bishops correctly deduced that John wanted a wholesale reform, but they did not at first realize their own strength. Gradually, encouraged by the knowledge that the world was watching, they became emboldened. "We heard men dare to say things...
...many Christians believe, with Catholic University's Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, that in practice "religion is just an irrelevancy in the lives of many people?the great majority." Gloomy Christian theologians are fond of speaking of a post-Christian age?the Christian Church estranged from modern society. "We need a theology of the 20th, or even the 21st century," says Dominican Dominique Dubarle, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris...