Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ease it, a special 1964 Lincoln Continental limousine was lengthened a full yard (to 20 ft. 10 in.) by a Chicago manufacturer and fitted with running boards so that it could carry 13 people-including six security guards. It was equipped with a battery-powered public-address system, a papal seat that could be raised seven inches, fluorescent lamps to illuminate the Pope, and a bubble-top covering (non-bulletproof) in case of rain. More than 75 television cameras and 500 personnel were assigned to give the visit the most intensive TV exposure ever concentrated on a single event...
...puzzled by your cover story. It is incompetent, disrespectful, and may harm the ecumenical movement and the papal peace plea...
Deicide. Other papal interventions in the daily workings of the council have been less fortunate. Last year, for example, Paul insisted on making 19 changes in the final text of the schema on ecumenism after the bishops had approved it. One statement, highly offensive to non-Catholic observers, now says that Protestants "seek" rather than "find" God through Scripture...
There are widespread Catholic fears that such gloomy papal warnings against "radical revision" could lead to what Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak calls "a crisis of timidity" among the bishops. Taking their cue from Paul's warnings and from conservative clamor at home, bishops may be content to draw back from the full implications of aggiornamento. Already there are Catholics who complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope...
ROBERT F. CLARK Administrative Assistant Papal Volunteers for Latin America Chicago...