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...make him Pope during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). During the council he made eight speeches, the most memorable in favor of religious liberty. Church honors followed: a Cardinal's red hat in 1967, election as one of three Europeans on the council of the world bishops' synod in 1974, an invitation to conduct the Lenten retreat for Pope Paul VI's household...
...days, was a rascal who had been dismissed from several ecclesiastical offices. His successor, Stephen VI (or VII), had the decomposing body of his predecessor-but-one, Formosus I, disinterred, clothed in papal robes, and set on the throne in St. Peter's; whereupon Stephen called a synod to "depose" him, had the dead man's blessing forefinger cut off, and the corpse flung into the Tiber...
Though the Pope underscored "collegiality" (power-sharing in the church), he is no ecclesiastical democrat. After the third international Synod of Bishops in 1971 he scolded those who say that body is a parliament. "The fathers are not a legislative or decision-making assembly," he said, "but rather a consultative one for the Pope." Last year he said, "Christ himself- and not the grass roots - confers authority on the Pope and the bishops, also specifying in what way to exercise...
...should accept the Synod of Bishops not simply as an advisory body but as a responsible, decision-making organ of the church, and he should extend concrete competence to the episcopal conferences and the diocesan councils...
...ordination of women has gone more smoothly in Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong than in the U.S. Even the Church of England has announced "no fundamental objections," and the Lambeth decision may help pro-women's ordination forces carry the day at the Church of England Synod this November. As for black African Anglicans, some associate women's equality with racial equality. Others, however, share the position taken by a Kenyan bishop: Women priests are fine for the West...