Word: schism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State of the Church. Ecumenical councils of the past were summoned when the church was faced with clear and present danger-heresy, schism, internal corruption, or the violent enmity of civic powers. Vatican II comes at a time when the Roman Catholic Church has never seemed so strong or so durable. Its membership-550 million-is at an alltime high; it has no fewer than 418,000 priests and 946,000 nuns...
Councils of the Renaissance delayed, but could not prevent, the division of Christendom that came with the Reformation. The Council of Constance ended the Great Schism of the West, a disastrous 40-year era in which the church had three rival claimants for the papacy. This council, like the forthcoming Vatican Council, was convened by a Pope John XXIII; since historians now agree that he had not been validly elected, the present Pope was free to use the same numerals. The Council of Trent (1545-63) was a belated effort to reform the corrupt Catholic practices-notably, the traffic...
...doctrines as the Virgin Birth and the Trinity. A year and a half ago, Pike's unorthodoxy led a group of High Church ministers from Georgia to demand that the House of Bishops try him for heresy (they didn't). Now Dissenter Pike is faced with a schism of dissenters right in his own diocese...
Center of the schism is the Church of the Redeemer in Palo Alto, whose parishioners are all former members of the nearby Episcopal Church of St. Mark...
...unhappy state today, and the guilt of our fathers lies heavy upon us. It would be a truly Christian act if the Pope and the Council were to express this truth: Forgive us our sins! Forgive us our sins, and in particular our share in the sin of schism...