Word: murrays
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., Playhouse. Luv, by Murray Schisgal, talks Freud and carries a slapstick, Sept...
...would have particularly welcomed the news from Rome died in New York City last week. Victim of a heart attack was the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 62, the Jesuit theologian whose influence and immense prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of his faith and order. Secular leaders met under his guidance. Protestants welcomed him to their councils; the Episcopal Committee on Theological Freedom and Social Responsibilities listed him as one of its advisers. Internation al Catholicism recognized his intellectual leadership at the Second Vatican Council, despite efforts of the ultra-conservative Vatican Curia to suppress his liberal views on religious...
...Father Murray's life coincided in time and purpose with a new era in U.S. Catholicism. What had been largely a church of immigrant ethnic groups at the turn of the century became part of the pluralistic weave of American life, ready to shuck its minority-minded defensiveness and its sense of dependency on authority overseas. With deep insight and patient scholarship, Father Murray incorporated the U.S. secular doctrines of church-state separation and freedom of conscience into the spiritual tradition of Roman Catholicism...
...Woodstock, Father Murray's theological specialties were the Trinity and grace. But he was also keenly interested in the church's dealings with the world, and his learned debating on behalf of incorporating church-state separation into Catholic polity became so lively in the pages of the American Ecclesiastical Review that his order eventually silenced him with instructions to clear all his future writing on church-state matters with Jesuit headquarters in Rome...
...Father Murray's views came triumphantly into their own with the wave of aggiornamento begun by Pope John XXIII and carried out after a fash ion in Vatican II. Despite the Curia's success in keeping him out of the first council session, he was on hand as an expert for the second, and when the bishops rose to applaud the passage of the declaration on religious liberty, which confirmed the right of all men to freedom of conscience in worship, many of them felt that the applause was really for John Courtney Murray...