Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curbing the Curia. One committee of English-speaking prelates that included Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden suggested that papal nuncios be bypassed in most communications between national episcopates and the Vatican. Another English-speaking group asked that the Roman Curia stop using the expression "the Holy Father says" and giving the impression that it speaks in the name of the Pope when, in fact, it is speaking for itself. Nor, it said, should the Curia issue decrees or make major press statements without informing the concerned bishops beforehand...
Despite the criticism, the mood of the gathering was one of elation over what England's John Cardinal Heenan described as the "tolerance and charity" of the bishops. The prevailing sentiment of the synod was so clearly in favor of reforms that it seemed unlikely that the Pope could long avoid implementing them. But no one challenged the Pontiff's supreme authority, or his right to delay acting upon or even to ignore what the prelates recommended...
...relations? Experienced correspondents doubt that Pope Paul VI (whose father was a newspaperman) is yet a complete believer in the virtues of a free and informed press, at least as far as Vatican affairs are concerned. More likely, the Vatican is simply reacting to reality. Newsmen will get information one way or another (there have always been paid informers within the papal enclave, and there still are); it is obviously better for the Vatican that at least some of the news at such an important conference come from official sources...
...One unofficial source that has delighted journalists and displeased the Vatican is the liberal, scholarly International Documentation Center. Set up in Rome during Vatican II to provide the Dutch press with detailed background information, IDOC has since become an international clearinghouse for information on the renewal movement in all churches. During the synod, an offshoot of IDOC presented daily a panel of four theologians and historians to analyze the Vatican bulletins...
With his garish ties and gaudy boots, Douglas T. Snarr, 35, comes on like a big bad billboard. He is, indeed, the founder and president of Snarr Advertising, Inc., which owns 1,600 outdoor signs in 13 Western states. Yet Doug Snarr has also become a one-man lobby to ban billboards from any rural road built with federal financial help...