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...turned over $680,000 worth of church property in downtown Rochester-1½ acres of land, a church and a parochial school-to the Federal Government for use in an urban-renewal project. Some of the Negroes and Puerto Ricans who make up a majority in the parish were distressed at losing the church and school, but Sheen promised to support a new social center next to another Catholic church in the area...
After its application was approved, the City began trying to get as many residents as possible involved in planning the City Demonstration Agency (CDA) which will supervise the program. They held a series of meetings in parish halls and local schools to explain the Model Cities program. They held a series of meetings in parish halls and local schools to explain the Model Cities program. A convention of area residents (complete with balloons) was held in early February to ratify the preliminary work of a drafting committee of their neighbors...
Once they resolve working conditions, which many members consider the immediate problem of priests, the senates are likely to move into broader areas. Boston's senate, for instance, has a subcommittee studying how priests can make themselves more effective on the parish level. A major future role of the priests' senates, in the view of many leading Catholics, is to link with laymen's associations. The Rev. Raymond Goedert, chairman of the Association of Chicago Priests, echoes the common hope that eventually priests, laity and bishops will join in a national pastoral council, "so that when...
...themes is that laymen should have a voice in selecting parish priests-as they already do in Switzerland-and bishops. He is confident that laymen's councils, which have been formed in many parishes since Vatican II, will become ever more widespread, and independent. More than that, he argues that methods should be set up, perhaps through an elected synod of laymen, for the laity to have some say in picking the Pope. He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual...
With the money from the sale, Bishop Jansen converted a nearby convent chapel into a church for the residents of his old cathedral parish, ordered the construction of two much-needed new churches in the Rotterdam suburbs, plus another in The Hague, which is part of his diocese. Although the developer who bought Rotterdam's Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda...