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...palace, Council Chief Rafael Bonnelly formally reconvened the Council and announced: "I am the President of the Republic and of the Council of State." He accepted the resignation of Balaguer (who had prudently taken asylum in the residence of the papal nuncio), and then came the cheers, the backslaps and embraces. The only foreign diplomat invited to the celebration: able young (40) Charge Hill, representing...
...Latin parchment document of the papal bull began in the traditional way: "John, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God." Thus, on Christmas morning, Pope John XXIII was to convoke Vatican Council II-potentially an event in Roman Catholic history on the order of the Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople or Trent...
...tightening church discipline. Pope John's new council, frankly aimed at "modernizing" the church, will have plenty to do in both discipline and dogma. The Vatican Council of 1869-70, even though it was the first churchwide convocation in more than 300 years, did little more than define papal infallibility before it broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Thus, in its present battle against the secular world, the flesh and the devil, Roman Catholicism lumbers along on a centuries-old collection of codes, rites and practices, many of which hinder rather than help its missionary...
Perhaps nothing will concern the council more than the question of Christian unity. As the Pope has already indicated. Protestant and Orthodox churches will be invited to send observers to the council-a visible reminder of the oft-expressed papal hope that all, some day, will be one. No one expects that the great obstacles to church unity will be removed by the council. But Vatican officials are confident that the prayerful work of the bishops will lead at least to greater cooperation of Roman Catholicism with "the separated brethren," and thus to a start on the long road...
...principles, rather than the mechanics, of unity, Aeterna Dei Sapient ia forcefully reflected the Pope's own oft-expressed dream of healing the breach between Christendom's largest branches. But to many Protestants and Orthodox Christians, the encyclical seemed as much a reminder of unacceptable papal claims as a warm appeal for unity...