Word: patriarchally
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Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...
...thinks Buckley, "is that Father was a dissenter all his life. Had he been an establishmentarian, there might have been a greater impulse to rebel." In the influence that he exercised over his brood, until his death in 1958 at 77, Buckley Sr. bore considerable resemblance to that other patriarch of Irish descent, Joseph P. Kennedy. But beyond the Irishness, the Buckleys do not own up to any similarities. "My greatest accomplishment is not having one single child who has been a failure," says Aloise Buckley. Yet personal ambition may not have been so vigorously instilled in them...
...first time in Christian history, the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople last week set foot in Rome. Accompanied by four of his Metropolitans, Athenagoras I, the spiritual primate of Orthodoxy, arrived by jet for the third of his historic, symbolic encounters with Pope Paul VI. The three-day visit was, in a sense, a return engagement, inspired by the Pope's trip to Istanbul last July...
Since the Patriarch has no jurisdictional authority over most of Orthodoxy's autonomous branches, the meeting could not in itself produce any decision that might lead to union between the two churches. Nonetheless, Pope and Patriarch twice spoke with each other about such common problems as secularization, peace and war for more than an hour-the longest length of time they have had together. Once again, the two churchmen made it clear that they are uncommonly eager for unity...
...cultural evacuation." The regime is doing away with most French and English classes in Syrian schools. It has just taken control of Syria's 885 private schools, many of which are church-run, thereby evoking the combined wrath of the Moslem Mufti of Damascus and the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Syria. It has also "nationalized" the textbooks in these schools to make sure that they contain a proper dosage of socialist doctrine...