Word: synods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cardinal Bea in the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, is among the new cardinals and will likely succeed Bea as head of the Secretariat in name as well as in fact. The selection of men like Willebrands may help mollify some Catholic liberals who had hoped to see a synod of bishops eventually take over the functions of the College of Cardinals-a development now hardly likely with the promotion of so many princes...
...Pope last week was also concerned about estrangement within the church. Shortly before his visit to Taranto, he announced that he was summoning a second synod of bishops to meet in Rome, starting next...
Infant baptism is under fire. The most recent attack on this traditional Christian practice comes from West Germany, where 350 Evangelical (Lutheran) churchmen have petitioned the Rhineland synod to abandon the rubric requiring infant baptism and let parents decide when their children should undergo the ceremony. To give the demand more weight, 50 pastors in Germany have publicly indicated that they will not baptize their own children...
...long. One reason may be the dissension within the archdiocese between advocates of renewal and more cautious elements, which began even before Ritter's death. In 1965, for example, a group of 30 priests and laymen drew up a sweeping reform program, including the creation of an archdiocesan synod to extend the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Although sympathetic to the idea, Ritter felt that the reforming priests were going too far, eventually transferred some of them to obscure posts in the see. Apparently uninterested in taking on so demanding and troublesome an assignment, at least two bishops...
...priests-as they already do in Switzerland-and bishops. He is confident that laymen's councils, which have been formed in many parishes since Vatican II, will become ever more widespread, and independent. More than that, he argues that methods should be set up, perhaps through an elected synod of laymen, for the laity to have some say in picking the Pope. He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual service and partnership...