Word: synods
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...recently grown more intense. The most notable conflict has taken place between conservatives and moderates in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, one of the nation's largest denominations (2.8 million U.S. members, 300,000 more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
...member of the U.S. delegation to the Synod of Bishops in Rome this autumn, the Archbishop of Cincinnati earned a signal honor: he was the only bishop to be elected on the first ballot to the planning council for the next Synod. Last week Joseph L. Bernardin, who at 46 is one of the nation's youngest archbishops, received an even more important accolade. In Washington, D.C., at their annual meeting, the 248 U.S. bishops present elected him the next president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the collective voice of the U.S. hierarchy...
...four weeks, while the 1974 Synod of Bishops met in Rome, Pope Paul VI had dutifully sat silent through the plenary sessions as Roman Catholic bishops from around the world frequently criticized their church and often made bold suggestions for improving it (TIME, Oct. 28). Not until the final session did the Pope get his chance at rebuttal. He first congratulated the bishops for making the synod a "positive experience." He was pleased, he said, at the "increasing vitality of the particular churches." But he then went on to make it clear who was still boss. He was, he reminded...
Good News. As the bishops streamed home from Rome last week, they could measure the Pope's valedictory against their frank, sometimes adventurous discussions. The gap between the two showed both the limitations and the strengths of the synod. Those who were optimistic-and many were-cited the free exchange of ideas; those who were pessimistic felt that the Pope would resist even some necessary changes...
...synod fathers turned down the major portion of a final summary document on evangelization, some of them voting to quash it because it was too laden with vague generalities. But though they did not produce any comprehensive analysis, the bishops did leave behind a file of some 3,000 separate statements for the Pope to peruse at his pleasure -or displeasure...