Word: synods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Synod gives cautious approval to nuclear deterrence
...This debate is about the end of the world and about how we may best delay it." So said Stuart Blanch, the Archbishop of York, last week as the Church of England became the latest denomination to struggle with the morality of nuclear deterrence. British clergy judged the General Synod's deliberations to be the church's most important debate on public policy since World War II. The meeting occurred in Church House, adjacent to Westminster Abbey, where Parliament met in 1941 after German bombers had damaged the House of Commons...
...expected to be added to the ten American Cardinals when Pope John Paul II names new members of the Sacred College. Bernardin has been a close colleague of the Pope's since they served together from 1974 to 1978 on the Vatican's international council for the Synod of Bishops...
...demoralized by Cody's indifference, Chicago's 2,468 priests have suddenly found that their opinions matter on such issues as financial accountability and the church's social mission. In the new heady atmosphere of collegiality, there is talk that Bernardin plans to convene an archdiocesan synod (the last one took place...
...A.L.C. Presiding Bishop David Preus, until recently a foot dragger on union, predicts a happy ending. Says he: "It is apparent that the rank and file in our church wish to go ahead with dispatch." Remaining outside the process is the conservative, 2.6 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...