Word: redemptorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Redemptorist Theologian F.X. Murphy, a shrewd observer of papal politics since the Second Vatican Council, singles out two qualities that the new Pope must have: "pazienza e presenza, " the patience to deal with a pluralistic, decentralized church and the commanding presence to lead and guide. Similarly, U.S. Sociologist Father Andrew Greeley, in a detailed "job description" for the next Pontiff, concludes that he should be a "hopeful, holy man, who can smile, delegate responsibility and trust other human beings." If he is, Greeley observes, "it does not matter whether he is progressive or moderate...
...Neumann became the first man received into the Redemptorist order in the U.S., and only five years later was named head of the nation's Redemptorist missions. After two years he asked to be relieved of the administrative burden, which made him an unlikely candidate to be a bishop. But Neumann's quiet spiritual stamina appealed to Francis Kenrick, who had left Philadelphia to become Archbishop of Baltimore. When Neumann heard that Kenrick was recommending him as his successor in Philadelphia, he beseeched nuns to pray against such an appointment, which he considered "a grave calamity...
Another of Noonan's contributors, German Redemptorist Father Bernard Haring, a moral theologian at Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana, urges Catholics to avoid squabbling with others over such "hard cases" as the victim of rape or the endangered mother and concentrate on the "large areas of agreement" they share with less dogmatic foes of abortion. Many who would permit abortion in exceptional cases would agree, for instance, on the immorality of abortion for mere convenience...