Word: synodical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Athenagoras has said he will call an Orthodox synod this fall to consider whether Greek Orthodox churches should accept Pope John's invitation to participate in a new ecumenical council to pick up the unfinished business of the Council of Florence...
Bishop Luigi Traglia, 64, born in Albano, near Rome, has worked in the church's administrative headquarters, the Curia, for the past 30 years. As vice regent of the diocese of Rome, he was in charge of the recent synod of the Roman clergy (TIME, Feb. 8), has made an impressive record as a builder of churches and organizer of new parishes...
...Constitutions. A synod is not like a council-its articles are not even discussed, much less debated. The 770 articles presented to 1,200-odd clergymen in six days of sessions were the result of 165 committee meetings. Working under the Pope's close supervision during the past year, the committee examined thousands of suggestions from parish priests, high church officials and leading laymen. The articles themselves will not be published for weeks, but enough is known about them to form a broad picture of Rome's new diocesan constitutions, which Roman Catholic bishops everywhere are urged...
None of the articles are as sweeping as those of the 1461 synod, which was directed at the tightening up of the laxities of Renaissance Rome, and established the Easter duties of confession and Communion, set up temporal penalties for blasphemy, forbade gambling, fortunetelling, sorcery, secret marriage, marriage with blood relatives, marriage in Lent and Advent, ordered parents to keep infants under one year in cribs and ordered priests to eschew fancy hairdos. For the most part the new constitutions restate and re-emphasize existing provisions of canon law, apply old disciplines to new situations. Items...
Glorious Celibacy. In one of his four major Latin addresses to the synod, Pope John offered some fatherly advice to the priests of Rome. "We are grieved," he said, "that some people should talk excessively about the possibility, or even the convenience, of the Catholic Church's giving up what has been for centuries, and still remains, one of the noblest and purest glories of her priesthood"-i.e., celibacy. He urged priests to pay close attention to head, heart and tongue: to study all their lives, to fill their hearts with love, and to know when to speak...