Word: synods
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Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such...
...Rome. Vatican II did not explicitly make such a demand, which would exclude not only Protestants but also the Eastern Orthodox, reunion with whom has long been considered a prime personal interest of John Paul's. If nothing else, Ols' declaration will heighten interest in the special Bishops' Synod called by the Pope for next fall to reexamine the work of Vatican...
Among his most pressing tasks when he returns home: preparing for a two-week meeting, starting next November, of Roman Catholic bishops. The extraordinary synod will convene to examine the work of the Second Vatican Council, which made sweeping changes in church life. The mandate of the synod, says a Vatican theologian, will be "assessment and clarification" of the 1962-65 council, "not a correction or revision." No doubt, but the clarification is likely to be exactly in line with the Pope's summons to authority, discipline and orthodoxy...
...does insist upon holding to the letter of what the council said, despite liberals who contend that the "spirit" of the council inspires openness to further changes not specifically endorsed by it. Confusion over this point is precisely the reason the Pope called next fall's special synod...
Meanwhile, the synod moved to take over the property of the deeply divided church. Roth's supporters occupied the building on Dec. 27, turned away the bishop's agents and produced the edgy standoff that ended last week. The group inside the church included Roth's wife Nadine...