Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rollicking cheer of his welcome, the Pope was in Africa on serious business. His uppermost concern, he declared even before leaving Rome, was the bitter, two-year civil war between Nigeria and Biafra, but the trip had first been planned around the Pope's dedication of a shrine to 22 African martyrs.* He also consecrated twelve new African bishops and offered a thoughtful analysis of the African Church's spiritual role before a pan-African conference of Catholic prelates that had been meeting all week. Above all, the visit reaffirmed the Pope's concern for the future...
...ranging" and drew "important conclusions," but the government would give no endorsement before contemplating it further. It was, nonetheless, a topic of some interest to British diplomats-and a few seemed to get the message instantly. Last week, Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rome, pulled up in the embassy Rolls (his requirements apparently still justify one) at a ceremony on the fashionable Via Veneto to mark the opening of Italy's first Wimpy Bar -a British-owned hamburger chain. Intoned Sir Evelyn: "God bless this bar and all who frequent...
Christian Duty. What has made Suenens sound such alarms so publicly? "He was convinced that he could not get a proper hearing for his ideas in Rome," says a close friend. Moreover, "he was certain that the Bishops' Synod in October would be too restricted to provide an adequate forum for such issues, and he considered it his duty as a Christian leader to speak out." Says Suenens himself: "Perhaps if more church leaders had spoken out in the 15th century, Luther and the Protestants would not have had to break away...
...Brussels restaurant owner, Suenens was raised by his widowed mother, sponsored for the priesthood and sent to Rome to study at 17 by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier. The young Suenens chose the progressive cardinal as his spiritual director and carried on a close correspondence with him. A brilliant student at Rome's Gregorian University, where he earned doctorates in theology and philosophy and a baccalaureate in canon law, Suenens returned to Belgium to become a professor of philosophy, at the age of 25, at Malines Seminary. A decade later he was named vice-rector of Belgium...
Evolving World. Last year, shortly before Paul issued his birth-control encyclical, Humanae Vitae, Suenens was among the liberal European cardinals who flew to Rome to argue against an earlier, even more conservative version. Later he pleaded unsuccessfully against the issuance of Humanae Vitae as well. When Suenens went back earlier this year to oppose new powers for papal nuncios and press for urgent reforms in church administration, resentful conservatives fought back so bitterly that he left Rome in disgust...