Word: postconciliar
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...religious community in Rome told TIME. It is just that "their approach is preconciliar. They originated prior to the Second Vatican Council, and they don't want to dialogue with society as they find it." That would not describe the majority of self-identifying American Catholics, who are distinctly postconciliar, with more than 75% opposing the birth-control ban. Their sympathy for Opus Dei might be limited. Some might even feel hostile toward it: church liberals, once riding high, have understood for decades that Rome does not incline their way. They feel abandoned, says Allen, "and whenever you feel that...
...Pope, by training and experience, than any other 20th century Pontiff. In practice, he proved nervous, hesitant and indecisive. He simply could not make up his mind. John had foreseen this; he had a word for his successor: Amleto (Shakespeare's Hamlet). Under this wavering and unlucky Pope, the postconciliar church went off the rails. All over the world, but particularly in the Americas and Europe, discipline became shaky or even broke down. Thousands of priests gave up their vocations and married. Nuns took to feminism. Quasi heresies like Liberation Theology became the mode. Some hierarchies, such as the Dutch...
...Catholic Church. Because of our concern as Catholics for the church and its service to humanity, we would like to speak for all who are hoping for a good Pope, a Pope who would above all try to help overcome the conflicts and contradictions which have arisen in the postconciliar church-a Pope of 'reconciliation! Only the best is good enough! A Pope of our time must...
...having dared to question at all. During the first decade of the 20th century, Modernists like French Abbe Alfred Loisy, who championed scholarly Biblical criticism, and British Jesuit George Tyrrell, who urged the revision of old dogmatic formulas, were excommunicated for beliefs that have become commonplace in the postconciliar church. Vatican II was indeed a watershed. Not since the Council has Rome formally condemned anyone as a heretic...
...parish priests. Mostly moderate activists, they chose as president the Rev. Patrick O'Malley, 36, administrator of a ghetto-area parish in Chicago, who insists that the organization "is well within the spirit of Vatican II," meaning specifically the democratic sense of "collegiality" that has developed in the postconciliar church. "The bishop is no longer king," said O'Malley. "We don't have to ask permission to undertake our projects...