Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...storm of Catholic dissent stirred up by that encyclical, Shaw and Wynn found their sources still available-and even more cautious. Rarely was either man able to conduct an interview across a desk in a Vatican office. Shaw found himself taking soggy notes as he conversed with a theologian in swimming trunks beside a pool on the Via Cassia. One Vatican official refused to see Wynn anywhere but in the privacy of his own apartment, where he talked freely over glasses of his prize cognac. There was, in fact, only one interview in a Vatican office...
There, a conservative theologian remarked at the end: "You may be interested to know that we are sitting in the very room where Galileo stayed when he was summoned to Rome to appear before the Inquisition...
...Vienna. Apparently, all three have been dismissed from favor as unsympathetic. Today, the Pope's most trusted adviser is Bishop Carlo Colombo, 59, who is a knowledgeable master of standard textbook theology. Another confidant is Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi, the Pope's official theologian. Both Colombo and Ciappi advised Paul during the writing of Humanae Vitae...
...happened that the fathers of Vatican II could not have anticipated," says Publisher Dan Herr of Chicago's bimonthly Critic, "that another council cannot be delayed." One obvious topic for the agenda would be a new ruling on contraception to reflect the consensus of the faithful. Another, suggests Theologian Gregory Baum of Toronto, would be a definition "of the limits of papal authority and the freedom to be given local churches." It is taken for granted by those who dream of Vatican III that priests and laymen would be represented, as well as bishops. Philosopher Novak half-seriously proposes...
Died. Augustin Cardinal Bea, 87, brilliant Jesuit theologian who established the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity in 1960 and labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned...