Word: synods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still attend services at the church, but cannot take Communion or vote at congregational meetings-and they can be excommunicated if they do not repent. Much to the embarrassment of Presbyterian officials, Baker has no intention of resting his case. Immediately following the verdict, he appealed to the Iowa Synod, and he plans, if necessary, to carry his case to the General Assembly of the church. Says Baker: "I find myself involved in a significant struggle within the Presbyterian Church to preserve the right of free discussion...
...stand-fast minority at the Second Vatican Council. Ottaviani's successor is Yugoslavia's Franjo Cardinal Seper, 62, the Archbishop of Zagreb. As his country's unofficial primate since 1960, Seper (pronounced "shaper") has pursued a course of accommodation with Tito; at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome he was overwhelmingly elected by his fellow prelates to head its commission on theology...
...preached the need for greater Christian responsibility toward the world's poor in countless sermons and pastoral letters. Léger was also an advocate of church renewal at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome, where he made his final decision to quit his archdiocese. "It was during the discussions on faith and atheism," he explained, "that my future became a question of conscience for me. It became clear that Our Lord was asking me for deed as well as words." On the final day of the Synod, Pope Paul reluctantly approved Léger's request...
...Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...
Delegates to the eight-day congress are spending most of their time at workshops dealing with such general topics as the conflict between generations, the family-a subject that has already led to a discussion of birth control-and world economic development. Like the synod, the congress has no legislative authority over its church and can only make recommendations to the Pope. But some Roman observers were betting that Paul VI might get at least as much good advice from the congress' laymen as from the synod's bishops...