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...candles and hand torches. Millions of Londoners went to and from work beneath dimmed streetlights. Thirty crews of firemen helped rescue people who were trapped in stalled elevators. Dramatizing the nation's power shortage, one BBC newscaster had to read his bulletin by candlelight. A general synod of the Church of England also was conducted-perhaps fittingly-by candlelight, but that was not what the prelates had intended...
...fulfilling of each other's personhood"-pointedly omitting marriage as a prerequisite. The statement, which shows how far some U.C.C. leaders have moved from the sex ethic of their Puritan forefathers, also urges the church to recognize the sexual needs of single persons. The church's synod has not yet discussed the report, and seems unlikely...
...past and present, Ann Kelley's search for her role as a woman in the Church, Father Murray's ecumenical sense, or Father Collins' parish security is not whether one tradition wins or loses in the future, is not wrapped up in the lengthy papers of the bishop's Synod in Rome; and is not in the future of St. Paul's Church. Their significance must be found in Christ's dual promise of inner meaning for the individual and the promise of a new world for the suffering, hungry, and persecuted. If each different Catholic past and present...
...attuned to the attitudes of Pope Paul VI. He is fairly progressive on social principles but traditional on doctrine and church government. He has issued strong attacks on the arms race and unequal distribution of world wealth, but emphatically approved the endorsement of priestly celibacy at the recent world synod of bishops in Rome...
Even before his election last week, Krol probably had more influence in the Vatican than any other American bishop, outshining his predecessor in the U.S. presidency, Detroit's moderately progressive John Cardinal Dearden. At the Rome synod, Krol was the only bishop from North America elected to serve on the council that will prepare the next synod...