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...policemen to keep the bishops out of the cathedral in Athens' Metropolis Square, where they had been carrying on their politicking, and a crowd turned out to jeer them. "Christ-traders! You want gold, not God!" someone shouted. The 36 most defiant bishops wheeled off to the Holy Synod Building a block away and went on with their balloting...
...their own. They took that news to Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower. He told them: "I'm calling my brother tonight and telling him to give you the green light." By this time, Ike was ready to encourage the project. Skinner and Rosenkrans got the Presbyterian Synod of New York to approve a loose affiliation with the school, largely for the sake of fund raising. A 265-acre alfalfa field along Lake Cayuga was selected as the site, architects were hired to plan two classroom buildings and three dormitories. Tuition and board were pegged...
...Within the past two weeks, the Pauline manner has been dramatically visible in three major acts of his pontificate: the announcement of his trip to the U.N.; the issuance, just prior to the opening of the council, of his encyclical on the Eucharist; and the creation of a new synod of bishops...
...collegiality that was approved by the council last fall?namely, that the bishops, as descendants of the Apostles, collectively share ruling power over the church with the Pope. At first, the bishops and their theologians were delighted with the announcement. Then they began to wonder. Would Paul give the synod a share of the policy making powers that are now tightly clutched by the conservative, Italian dominated Roman Curia? Or would the synod become the church's equivalent of the subservient Soviet parliament ?an assembly summoned only to approve, not to decide? The answer is solely in Paul...
What made approval of joining the new council certain was a speech from the floor by John W. Behnken, respected former president of the Synod, who argued that "our forefathers were certainly interested in the unity of Lutheranism in America." Shortly after, current President Oliver Harms called for a vote. A chorus of scattered noes from diehard conservatives came from the back of Cobo Hall. "The resolution is not unanimous," said Harms, "but it is overwhelmingly adopted...