Word: schism
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...think I am not being pessimistic in saying that a schism is to be feared by the end of the year," said Rouen's coadjutor, Archbishop Andre Pailler, last month; he foresaw that some French conservatives would leave the church rather than accept the liberal definitions of religious liberty and the church in the modern world that the Vatican Council will probably approve this fall...
Daunted by the national publicity given to his speech, Archbishop Pailler later explained that what he meant by "schism" was a spirit of disobedience toward the council's decrees rather than a formal split. Nonetheless, church observers believe that he would not have spoken out without the advice and consent of other bishops, and some French conservatives argue that the church is already suffering from a "silent schism" of Catholics who are "walking out on their tiptoes, leaving the church forever." The bishops face a touchy task of reconciliation in a land where those people who are serious about...
Only in this century, Brown said, did Catholic historians and theologians begin to examine the intentions of the 16th century reformers instead of looking simply at the consequences of their actions. They then came to see, he continued, that the schism the reformers caused came only because the Medleval Church was too corrupt to admit the truth in the reformers' charges...
...Hans Küng, is how soon and how widely the spirit of the council is accepted throughout the church. If it is not, he warns, it could lead "to an extremely serious crisis of confidence in regard to the ecclesiastical office, which will not result in a new schism (no one today would find that worth the trouble), but rather in a further quiet exodus from the church on the part of so many for whom the council has rekindled a new hope. And who should like to take upon himself the responsibility for that...
There has long been a split between the University-oriented part of the City and the rest of Cambridge, and the schism seems to have been widened by the controversy over the proposed Memorial Drive underpasses...