Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering compromise. Publicly, to be sure, it was trying to stay aloof from the quarrel. "We know nothing about the dispute except what we read in the papers," said Monsignor Fausto Vallaine, speaking for the Vatican. At week's end, though, there were rumors that a papal emissary was already in Warsaw to talk about the seminaries. But remembering Gomulka's rude veto of a papal visit during the millennium, few observers thought that the state was about to modify its stand. And no one expected that the rugged old cardinal would change his mind...
...with any other church. As for Catholicism, he declared: "I do not think that the claim the church makes as an institution rests upon any adequate Biblical and historical basis. I don't believe that the church is absolute, and I don't believe any more in papal infallibility. There is concern for authority at the expense of truth, as I am constantly shown by instances of the damage to persons by the workings of an impersonal and unfree system...
...said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, who will be 75 next month, is ready to leave at the Pope's pleasure. One U.S. prelate has resigned: Archbishop Edward Howard, 88, of Portland, Ore. By Oct. 11, when the papal directive takes effect, probably 200 of Catholicism's 2,500 bishops will have resigned...
...papal request affects two U.S. cardinals, New York's Francis Spellman, 77, and Los Angeles' James Francis Mc-Intyre, 80, as well as 18 diocesan bishops. Though Cardinal Spellman has given no sign that he plans to retire soon, he has delegated part of his authority. This month he granted extensive new powers to six of his auxiliary bishops, putting each in charge of areas within the New York archdiocese. Other prominent cardinals who are 75 or older are France's Achilles Lienart, Germany's Josef Frings, Czechoslovakia's Josef Beran, Argentina's Antonio...
Cooling the Militancy. Masons and Catholics have been on the outs ever since Pope Clement XII in 1738 issued the first papal bull condemning the Masons on the ground that their beliefs and rituals amount to a false religion. Catholics are still forbidden to join the Masons under pain of excommunication. For their part, the Masons have seldom been reluctant in the past to condemn the Catholic Church...