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...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...
...such reforms as internationalization of the Roman Curia, reduction of its power, greater authority for regional councils of bishops. He speaks of "reactionary doctrinaire tendencies" in certain council fathers, and dismisses the agenda items drawn up for the council by the Curia-dominated preparatory commission as "ill-prepared, partisan schemata...
Against Old Ideas. The first council session discussed five subjects, ranging from church unity to mass media, but the key battles were fought over three important schemata, or proposals...
Nelson Goodman, well-known professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Some Technical Differentia Among Schemata" at a Center for Cognitive Studies colloquium, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Allston Burr...