Word: schemata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that took place between sessions. Vatican II was first summoned by that quiet revolutionary, Pope John XXIII, who intuitively felt the need for an aggiornamento-a modernization of the church. His instinct was dramatically proved right during the first session, when a majority of the prelates rejected the standpat schemata on liturgy, the sources of revelation and the nature of the church proposed by the conservative Roman Curia...
...presidents or the six-man secretariat of the council. And in much the way that a committee chairman can bottle up a bill in the U.S. Congress, the Curia men in charge of the commissions stalled on the vital job of incorporating changes requested by the bishops into revised schemata. The important theological commission met so infrequently that Pope Paul formally requested it to get down to work...
...week's end the council secretariat announced that the third session would meet from Sept. 14 to Nov. 20 next year. Until then, the twelve council commissions will revise and boil down the remaining undiscussed schemata preparatory to final passage. How successfully these revisions will reflect the tone expected by the majority is problematical. Barring a last-minute change of heart by Pope Paul, the revisions will still be supervised by Curia cardinals. A case in point is the chapter favoring religious liberty, which was composed in part by U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray. In response to considerable pressure...
...second session of the Vatican Council has dealt with schemata (agenda items) that have been of primary interest to Roman Catholics. This week the prelates are taking up an issue of profound interest to millions outside the church-the relationship of Catholicism to other faiths...
This week, as 2,200 bishops gather in St. Peter's to begin the debates of the Vatican Council's second session, they will be working under drastically revised ground rules recently decreed by the Pope. The 73 schemata, or agenda items, presented to them last fall have been boiled down into 16 broader proposals. Decisions on whether to continue discussion of a schema will be made by simple majority vote rather than by two-thirds, and substitute schemata may be brought to the floor of the council by petition of 50 or more bishops. Four cardinals have...