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...revival of the College of Cardinals raises questions about a far more recent collegial structure, the Synod of Bishops, whose delegates are elected mostly by the bishops of each nation...
John Paul said last week that the Cardinals' new role will not "weaken or diminish" the synod, which he has already called to meet next fall. He indicated that the Cardinals' meetings will treat questions linked with the papacy and the Vatican, while the synods will cover broader church life...
...Paul VI paid lip service to collegiality and established the synod, but he really never implemented the Second Vatican Council's concept of consultation...
...have a feeling the average North American Catholic doesn't give a hoot what the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod thinks of the Pope. He is not their church leader. Let them look to Martin Luther as the Antichrist...
...there persist in America two vestigial strains of anti-Catholicism. One is the old and somewhat fading nativist variety -the sort that led the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the past year to reaffirm its opinion that the Pope is the Antichrist. The second strain, considerably more disturbing be cause it is so much more "respectable," is the bigotry practiced by certain intellectuals, liberals, humanists and elitists...