Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only talk that really counted last week, however, was proceeding among the Cardinals who will elect Roman Catholicism's 263rd Pope in hermetic secrecy during the conclave that begins this Friday evening. Paul stripped the right to vote from Cardinals age 80 and over, a ruling affecting 15 of the 129 red hats. With the death in Rome last week of Paul Yu Pin, 77, the exiled Chinese Cardinal, 114 men are eligible. But America's John Wright, India's Valerian Gracias and Poland's Boleslaw Filipiak are too ill to participate. (Like Yu Pin, they...
...provide the needed "balance and serenity." One seasoned Vatican official-neither a Cardinal nor an Italian-figures the conclave simply will not have the courage to break the centuries-old lock that Italy has on the office, even though non-Europeans now constitute 64% of the world's Roman Catholics...
...should be familiar with recent developments in theology and should provide representation in the Roman Curia not only for traditionalist theology but also for other important streams in contemporary Catholic theology...
...dialogue and cooperation with the other Christian churches and should exercise his influence as a gathering, not a dispersing force for the unity of the church within plurality. He should give an example of Christian readiness to change, by removing the obstacles to church union on the part of Roman Catholicism and by promoting the cooperation of the Catholic Church with the World Council of Churches...
...they should be, like him, male. Objected the Rev. Elizabeth Weisner of Washington, B.C., one of some 150 women who have already been ordained: "A priest is a priest is a priest. The Sacrament is unchanged by the person celebrating it." A bigger stumbling block was opposition from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, particularly since Anglicans like to consider themselves a kind of ecumenical bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The greatest obstacle, however, was the real threat of that rarity in Anglicanism-schism. After the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism, voted narrowly to ordain women...