Word: pope
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...Before Pope Paul VI named him bishop of the modest diocese in late 1966, Fulton Sheen was best known for his conversions of famous people and for popularizing the Roman Catholic religion with his magnetic television personality. Eventually, he drew an audience of 30 million for his weekly program, called Life Is Worth Living, rivaling Comedian Milton Berle in Nielsen ratings...
...Negro causes, notably a protest group's demand for 600 jobs at Eastman Kodak Co. Parishioners were angered and protested vigorously when he donated church property to the Federal Government last year without consulting them. Finally discouraged, Bishop Sheen pleaded during a 40-minute audience with the Pope last May to be released from his Rochester post. His request was granted...
...Peter's Square, underneath the shuttered windows of Pope Paul's apartments in the Vatican, progressive and conservative Roman Catholics came to blows last week. When a group of Italian faithful held a vigil to dramatize their demand for "a church of the poor," they were denounced by irate conservatives. "Communists!" they yelled. "Get out of Rome! Long live the Pope!" The scuffle in the streets was symptomatic of the conflict within the Vatican, where 144 prelates assembled this week for the second Bishops' Synod. In the Hall of Broken Heads, once the storage place for discarded...
...meeting of the 144 bishops, archbishops and cardinals, who represent national conferences of bishops in 92 countries, has only one overriding subject on its agenda: the practical application of collegiality, or shared authority, which was enunciated during Vatican II. Should the Pope rule with only the advice of his bishops, as Rome insists, or should he allow the bishops co-responsibility with him? The same issue was touched on last week at smaller meetings of 29 theologians who form the Pope's theological commission. The theologians came to no hard decision. They did agree, however, that as long...
...dissident priests were in deadly earnest, and they asked the Pope's blessing. Instead, the Vatican quietly passed the word that the priests were to be denied meeting space on Catholic premises. Eventually, they were forced to meet at the Waldensian Protestant church near the Tiber. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore delta Domenica observed that many of them had in effect already left the church they were purporting to liberate...