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...year term as ecumenical spokesman for more than 250 member denominations of the World Council, including Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox -some 400 million Christians in all. Since Protestants form the core of the organization, he will become (though in a vastly less powerful way than Rome's Pontiff) the Protestant "Pope...
...whole argument could be ended. But as long as the wartime generation lives, the inquisition of Pius (now a candidate for Catholic sainthood) is likely to go on; and despite new evidence like Waagenaar's, there is little prospect of a final verdict. During the war the Pontiff himself described his dilemma over Jews as "a door that no key could open." The image still seems...
...retired Bishop P.J.A. Moors, 65, a moderate who had carefully mediated between conservative and progressive factions in his diocese. The Pope was known to feel that conservatives were not adequately represented in the predominantly liberal Dutch hierarchy, and Conservative Gijsen was his choice to redress the situation. The Pontiff emphasized his point by consecrating Gijsen in Rome and summoning The Netherlands' primate, Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, to join in the ceremony...
Pope Paul VI, who has strongly urged all Roman Catholic bishops to retire at 75, turns 75 himself in September. In April, when Italian newspapers were speculating that Paul might be the first Pope in modern history to resign the Pontiff gave a talk to some nuns in which he was quoted as saying "I do not want to give up the papacy." Apparently it was felt that so bald an avowal gave too much recognition to the possibility of retirement. The Vatican has just released a tape of the wistful words Paul really uttered: "It would be beautiful...
Pope Paul VI shows no sign of bending his definition of religious life to accommodate the new nuns. In an exhortation to sisters promulgated last summer, the Pontiff warned against deviations from "the essential commitments" of religious life. Last month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb" for secular dress. Besides the Pope and many of the all-male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns...