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...morning last week, Pope John XXIII, walking briskly, crossed the threshold of the Vatican's Consistory Hall, followed in order of seniority by 29 purple-clad cardinals. As soon as he was seated on his throne, the papal master of ceremonies cried out, in accordance with" the rubrics of this historic ritual, "Extra omnes [Everyone outside]" A host of attending bishops and monsignori, the chamberlains and members of the Noble Guard bowed to the throne and withdrew; the doors were closed. The Pope, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, and absolute ruler of the largest religious body in Christianity...
Died. Aloisius Joseph Cardinal Muench, 72, only U.S. prelate ever to serve on the Roman Curia, a witty Midwesterner who championed social and labor legislation, served for 13 years as papal representative in West Germany; of Parkinson's disease; in Rome...
...Tutting the Pope. The magazine's brief life has been punctuated by thunderclaps of dissent. Recently, Buckley, who is a Roman Catholic, challenged the papal encyclical Mater et Magistra. This letter from Pope John XXIII to his bishops advocated a measure of "socialization," i.e., government planning and welfare programs, and urged bishops to accommodate to the trend. The Review promptly took the Vatican to task, describing the encyclical as "a venture in triviality...
...teachers (including some 60 Protestants and several Jews) and the 89 priest or brother teachers. In the classes of Historian Aaron Abell, a Catholic, "the Christian ethic is not stressed at all." A political science course, on the other hand, devotes half its reading to Augustine and Aquinas. Papal encyclicals on social justice show up in economics. Biology and the dogma of virgin birth do not conflict because, in Hesburgh's view, "biology does not study miracles." Historian Matthew Fitzsimons hopes that "a Christian view of man makes sense out of sacrifice and suffering...
...Roman Catholics, the dogma of papal infallibility is a logical extension of the church's God-given duty to protect the teaching of Christ from error. To Protestants, infallibility is an unwarranted assumption of power by the Bishop of Rome, and a serious bar to Christian reunion. Last week a Protestant theologian suggested that non-Catholics ought to take another look at the doctrine...