Word: postulata
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...problem (membership dropped from 36,038 in 1965 to 29,436 last year), the fourth vow was high on the agenda when the General Congregation was convened by the progressive Basque who heads the order, Superior General Pedro Arrupe (TIME cover, April 23,1973). Many of the 1,020 postulata (proposed changes) that flowed to Rome before the meeting had raised the vow issue...
...January 1959 that he intended to call the church's first council since Vatican Council I in 1869-70, and the 20th since Nicaea in 325. As a start, every Catholic bishop in the world was asked what topics the council should consider; the 2,150 replies (called postulata) have been compiled into a secret, 20-volume report from which the agenda will be drawn. Decisions on that agenda will be made, according to majority vote, by more than 2,000 cardinals, archbishops, bishops, abbots and Eastern Rite Patriarchs, assisted by 300 or so of the church...
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