Word: non-christian
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...conclusions. He carried on John's interest in ecumenism, notably by his meeting in Jerusalem with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras. But he also disturbed Protestants by the "return to Rome" implications of his 1964 encyclical Ecclesiam Suam (His Church). One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo Cardinal Marella, and almost nothing has been heard of it since. Two years ago, Paul announced that he intended to reform the Curia; so far, his only visible step has been to have Francesco Cardinal Roberti, a curial...
...stormy argument is expected this fall over another Pauline change that was made in the interests of compromise. One of the most significant of all council documents is the declaration on non-Christian religions, which exonerates the Jews of the ancient charge of deicide for their role in the death of Christ. At Paul's suggestion, the deicide clause has now been replaced by a more ambiguous phrasing?apparently to placate Italian conservatives, who insist that it runs counter to the sense of Scripture, and to satisfy anxious Middle Eastern Catholics, who mysteriously see in exoneration the first step toward...
...real tests of the council's commitment to renewal, many Catholics believe, are still the schema on "The Church in the Modern World" (Schema 13) and the declaration on non-Christian religions. Probably the most heavily rewritten of all council documents, Schema 13 is forthright on questions of peace and war-it upholds the right of conscientious objection and denounces massive bombing of civilian centers-but it appears evasive and unsure in dealing with marriage, and it says nothing about birth control. The prospect is that it will get further revision. "We could use another year to work...
...demographer Adrian Bouffard, only 20% of the earth's population will be Christian -compared with 35% in 1900. Moreover, the churches' very existence is threatened in areas where growth is most rapid. In Africa and Asia, for example, the young churches must brave the resurgence of such non-Christian faiths as Islam and Buddhism, the enmity of freedom movements that would eradicate the "white man's religion" as a vestige of the colonial past...
...Liege, "and not rich enough in concrete applications to existential problems. As it progresses, it will turn more to the questions of the significance of human life and the application of the Christian message to the existential circumstance." It will also be open to the insights of science and non-Christian faiths, even to the humanist values-a deep concern for other men's welfare, an intelligently empirical approach to moral issues-of contemporary unbelief...