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...Language. Churchmen who know Rahner's work have strong opinions about him. U.S. Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel calls him "the world's greatest theologian." Many conservative churchmen, on the other hand, view Rahner's work with suspicion and hostility. Three weeks ago, Monsignor Francesco Spadafora of Rome's Lateran University told a gathering of Mexican bishops that Rahner was a "formal heretic." Cardinal Ottaviani, too, suspects Rahner. has tried three times to get Rahner's work formally condemned, and last month vainly asked Pope John to send Rahner back to Innsbruck...
Last week Washington's Public School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen set up a twelve-man citizens' committee to investigate the causes-and possible cures-for such rioting. But Monsignor John S. Spence, director of education for the archdiocese of Washington, threw up his hands. Noting that "brutal lawlessness" had occurred on Thanksgiving Day, he declared a moratorium on championship football and basketball games between Catholic and public high schools. Washington Correspondent Booker probably had the wisest words of all to say. Wrote he to the newspapers: "Negro leadership in Washington has a responsibility to tackle this problem...
Many of the observers were met at the airports by Dutch Monsignor Jan Willebrands, assistant to Augustin Cardinal Bea, the elderly Jesuit Biblical scholar who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. They were assigned choice pensioni close to the Vatican (at Vatican expense) and the best seats in St. Peter's at all sessions, including secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell...
Divine Intercession. From his Vatican office, Monsignor Luigi Sposito, chairman of the council's Technical Organizing Committee, was busy lining up hotel and pensione accommodations for the bishops-as a concession to the council, Rome innkeepers have refrained from raising prices-and negotiating with city police to have motorcycle escorts for the 100 rented buses that will shuttle the clergy from their residences to the council.* "If the police can get the bishops through Rome's traffic jams," says one Roman observer, "it will be a real demonstration of divine intercession...
...read in papal encyclicals, knowledgeable about the Catholic liturgical movement, many modern laymen are openly unhappy in parishes where the spiritual life is conducted along lines that were new a century ago.*Talking about the "emerging layman" is now a favorite parlor game of Catholic intellectuals. Some clergymen-notably Monsignor John Tracy Ellis of Catholic University and Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton-have publicly worried that a new anticlericalism is on the rise among Catholics...