Word: synods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their demand for "a church of the poor," they were denounced by irate conservatives. "Communists!" they yelled. "Get out of Rome! Long live the Pope!" The scuffle in the streets was symptomatic of the conflict within the Vatican, where 144 prelates assembled this week for the second Bishops' Synod. In the Hall of Broken Heads, once the storage place for discarded statues, they began discussions about the troubled relationship between the Pope and his bishops...
...Pope Paul ignored it altogether last year when he failed to consult his bishops throughout the world before issuing his controversial Humanae Vitae encyclical opposing artificial birth control. Perhaps more than anything else, the resulting uproar precipitated a crisis of authority and led to the calling of the synod...
Considerable Confusion. During one synod session, Justin Cardinal Darmo-juwono of Indonesia openly told Pope Paul that many bishops privately opposed his birth-control ruling. He recognized that the Pontiff was free to use his supreme power as he saw fit, but in "grave and major matters" affecting the entire church, the cardinal said, it was only fitting to use the advice of bishops. Otherwise, there might well be a repetition of the birth-control crisis...
Oswald C. J. Hoffmann, 55, chairman of the Congress, is a jowly, Laughtonesque spellbinder who attracts some 30 million listeners to his weekly Lutheran Hour radio sermons. A onetime Lutheran pastor and college teacher, Hoffmann was a public relations director for the Missouri Synod Lutherans when he joined the show in 1955. Though Hoffmann can roll out a soul-jarring sermon as if he had been stumping the hill country all his life, he insists that evangelism is not only "proclamation" but social action as well...
...General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), meeting last week in Seattle, similarly denounced reparations but requested that the church redeploy funds to make more than $30 million available to fight poverty and racial discrimination. Earlier, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ created a new Commission for Racial Justice and guaranteed it a minimum...