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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...
...complaints of conservative parishioners about D.M.S. partisanship were relatively restrained until last year, when members of the contentious group began disrupting worship services at area churches attended by executives of targeted corporations. As a result, 71 of the 145 members of Roth's church petitioned the Lutheran regional synod to investigate their pastor's conduct. The parishioners accused him of devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs. In October the synod's executive board and Pittsburgh's Bishop Kenneth May, applying rarely used provisions of the Lutheran Church in America's national constitution, decided that...
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...
...dying steel-mill town of Clairton, 71 of the 135 members at Trinity Lutheran Church had complained about Pastor D. Douglas Roth's support of DMS to Bishop Kenneth May and the regional synod of the Lutheran Church in America. Eventually the members demanded Roth's dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people...