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...Vatican's Wladyslaw Rubin, 61, secretary-general of the International Synod of Bishops, and Franciszek Macharski, 52, John Paul's scholarly protégé and successor as Archbishop of Cracow...
...approach to the regime in Poland shows, he is a man who speaks out with eloquence and has no fear of departing from a prepared script. Earlier, when the bishops of Holland revived their conservative vs. liberal squabbling, the Pope ordered them to appear at a special synod that he will direct himself, the first of its kind in modern history...
...bishops hammer out any differences in private and then unite under the Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, in order to survive. This Polish Pope is accustomed to that type of collegiality, which means top-down obedience, not ecclesiastical democracy. No one knows how it will go when an international Synod of Bishops meets in Rome the fall of 1980 to discuss family life...
Religious opposition to abortion, or at least to abortion on request, is more widespread than is sometimes apparent. Major groups that accept abortions only to save the mother's life include the various Eastern Orthodox churches, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, most members of the Churches of Christ, "independent" Christian Churches, the American Baptist Association, the Baptist Bible Fellowship and other conservative Protestant groups. Orthodox Judaism is willing to consider abortion for serious health reasons, while the Mormons and the 35 smallish denominations in the National Association of Evangelicals are also open to it in cases of rape. Three...
...proposed that the four churches, establish a joint governing body with far-reaching power over doctrine, discipline and issues of "general concern." Leaders of the Colored daughter church rejected the plan in favor of one even more daring: unification of the four churches. The white church, at its quadrennial synod a few weeks later, flatly rejected any accommodation to its nonwhite Reformed Christians. (The obvious fear: the church might gradually integrate at regional and local levels, and also lay the moral grounds for giving blacks a say in secular government.) The delegates also rejected a suggestion that they rename...