Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start it was clear their fears were unfounded. When Vice-President Hubert Humphrey told the opening session of the congress that the United States will stay in Vietnam until some honorable settlement can be arranged, he got a standing ovation. Not one of the 50 or so people who picketed Humphrey's speech was a congress delegate, and a plan to stage a walkout from the auditorium failed utterly...
...Priestly Life and the Ministry. Also rejected at the third session and now drastically rewritten, the schema outlines the proper relationships between priests, their laity and their bishops, urges creation of special postgraduate training centers for the clergy, proposes a revision of canon law to insure better distribution of priests around the world (Ireland has one for every 800 Catholics, Guatemala one for every...
...Missions. Sharply rejected at the third session because of its sterile, scholastic tone, the 40-page schema acknowledges the duty of the church to respect the cultural heritage of different nations, proposes a Central Evangelization Board for Catholic missions, vaguely outlines how Catholics may and may not cooperate with other Christian missionaries...
Ready for Voting ∙On Devine Revelation. Probably the first schema that will be approved by the fourth session, this lengthy thelogical treatise empathisizes the role of Scripture (rather than tradition) and analyzes the meaning and proper interpretation of the Bible for the church today...
...controversy rages. Perhaps the late Artur Rodzinski said it all during a recording session with Pianist Paul Badura-Skoda. Listening to a patched-up playback of one of their tapes Badura-Skoda exclaimed: "Listen! Isn't that magnificent?" "Yes," replied the maestro dryly, "don't you wish you could play that...