Word: precouncil
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...face of criticism that the Pope is turning back the clock to precouncil days, one of his closest advisers declares that this is a misinterpretation of papal aims. John Paul, says this observer, looks to the future, viewing his mandate in terms of three core concepts. They are integrality, identity and clarity: the integrality of the Christian message; the identity of the priests and nuns who present it; and, above all, clarity that will let everyone know exactly what the church stands...
...John Paul continues his freeze on laicization, says one prelate familiar with Vatican processing, "I am sure that many priests will just walk out as they did in precouncil years." (Priests who leave without permission and then marry, as many do, are excommunicated...
Commission Member Yves Congar, a French Dominican whose own works were under suspicion in preCouncil days, emphasized that even a broadened Catholic theological spectrum cannot mean "the coexistence of persons holding contrary views." Catholic diversity can only embrace those who share "identical basic views but express them differently." Roman Catholicism simply cannot afford the kind of theological pluralism that liberal Protestantism has enjoyed, says Congar-a limitation, he admits, that is both a strength and a weakness. "My Protestant friends at the World Council marvel that we were able to achieve so much in four sessions of the Vatican Council...
...Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York offered some imaginary stories that might have been written by political-minded reporters before the Council of Jerusalem in A.D. 51. "Now," said Sheen, "go back and read the report of the council in the Acts of the Apostles. Did the precouncil 'press reports' of conflicts, blocs and groups ever materialize...
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