Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...council leaders are boosting the assembly as "the most widely representative meeting in the history of the ecumenical movement." That it will be: the 1,330 clerics and laymen who are expected to attend include delegates from the council's 232 member denominations, as well as 15 official Roman Catholic observers. Privately, however, many council officials agree with the concerned forecast made by retired General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft that "confusion reigns supreme-politically, theologically, socially...
Still another potential conflict involves the question of Rome. The founding hierarchy of the council prefers a slower approach to ecumenism with Roman Catholicism than is favored by some younger churchmen. They believe it is high time to think about providing some way in which the Roman Catholic Church can become a member-an act that would involve a major change in the council's structure and operations...
...ROMAN CATHOLICS...
...priest and professor of theology at West Germany's Tubingen University. One of the officially invited theological advisers at Vatican II, Küng has earned both liberal praise and conservative censure for his provocative criticisms of his church. Last week, wearing his usual necktie instead of a Roman collar, Küng arrived in the U.S. for his first extended visit in five years. An enthusiastic ecumenist, he will teach courses in divine justification and the sacraments during the spring semester at Manhattan's Protestant Union Theo logical Seminary. Characteristically, Küng came armed with...
Actually an autobiography, the book tells of Kerouac's rise (in Lowell, Mass.), his fall (on the high seas), and his moral death and resurrection in Manhattan. As a story, it is nothing much. Growing up, Kerouac accepts his household gods (Breton ancestry and Roman Catholic religion), goes to school, plays football, goes to sea, and comes home shorn of vanity and, one is given to hope, restored to sanity and innocence. The one touch of melodrama is provided by Kerouac's pal Claude who murders an obstreperous pansy...