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Wynn and his Rome colleague John Shaw have been so successful in building that mutual trust that TIME was able to report the contents of Pope Paul's encyclical, Humanae Vitae, last July in advance of its official publication. For this week's cover story on the storm of Catholic dissent stirred up by that encyclical, Shaw and Wynn found their sources still available-and even more cautious. Rarely was either man able to conduct an interview across a desk in a Vatican office. Shaw found himself taking soggy notes as he conversed with a theologian in swimming...
There, a conservative theologian remarked at the end: "You may be interested to know that we are sitting in the very room where Galileo stayed when he was summoned to Rome to appear before the Inquisition...
After leaving the convent two years ago, she came to New York and to TIME. Reporter Dennis Sullivan is a former seminarian who studied in Rome at the Gregorian University. He taught theology at St. John's University in New York before turning to journalism. Associate Editor Bruce Henderson, who wrote the cover story, is no stranger to religious dissent; he has been reporting on the current controversy since it started, and he wrote the Martin Luther cover for the Easter issue of 1967. Senior Editor John Elson, a seven-year veteran of the Religion section-both as writer...
Thomas Stransky, an official of Rome's Secretariat for Christian Unity, suggests that the church is suffering from a "silent schism" of rebels who are remaining Catholic in name but are "hanging loose" from the institutional church...
...cells-under ground churchlets in constant fear of persecution-were united by a common faith rather than any formal organization. Initially, there was no strong distinction between clergy and laymen; bishops were frequently chosen by the people at informal assemblies. In the post-Apostolic period, the special place of Rome came to be recognized by other churches-not as having any monarchical jurisdiction but as a symbol of Christian unity and court of appeals in doctrinal disputes. Even so, the epoch-making decisions on heresy that beset the early church were resolved by general councils in Asia Minor; the bishop...