Word: schemata
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Strange Voices. In his opening address to the bishops, the Pope declined to comment on any of the schemata on the fourth session's agenda. "Our silence has been deliberate," said he. "It is a sign of our unwillingness to compromise your freedom of opinion." Still, some council observers wonder how the bishops could help being influenced by the warnings against imprudence that the Pope has issued this year. In August, for example, he warned against "strange and confused voices" even among the bishops who have been questioning "principles, laws and traditions to which the church is firmly bound...
When the bishops assembled in the aula of St. Peter's for the first session of the Vatican Council in 1962 their agenda contained 70 schemata (drafts of decrees) with drastic editing, the work load of the council has been brought down to a more manageable 16 items. Five have already been promulgated: decrees on mass communications, the Oriental Churches and ecumenism and constitutions on the nature of the church. This session, four schemata will be dicussed ln full, then revised and discussed again before a final vote. Simultaneously, the bishops will vote chapter by chapter on the revised...
Fears for the Future. On the ceremonious closing day of the council, Pope Paul formally promulgated the impressive and progressive-spirited schemata on ecumenism and the church, as well as a shorter document on the Oriental church. Before the third session ended, the bishops also voted approval of the revised declaration on non-Christian religions, which firmly asserts that the Jews were and are not guilty of deicide; this declaration may be touched up between sessions and will be given final approval at the-fourth session, which may not take place until...
Council leaders believe that the bishops have had enough time to impress their flocks back home with set speeches. This fall, prelates must submit copies of their talks five days ahead of time, thereby allowing the four council moderators to weed out repetitions. More over, six of the schemata - on the Eastern churches, missionary activity, priests, seminaries, schools, and the religious - will be put to the bishops as take-it-or-leave-it propositions without debate...
Principal Testimony. Streamlining the schemata has left the bishops free to consider the theological issues that will constitute the council's principal testimony: the nature of the church, ecumenism, the duties of bishops, divine revelation, and - if time allows - marriage and the church in the modern world. Also scheduled for debate are two declarations that are strongly backed by the U.S. hierarchy: 1) a ringing affirmation of every man's right to worship as his conscience dictates, and 2) a somewhat less than forthright condemnation of antiSemitism...