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...PRIESTS & RELIGIOUS. The Council of Trent set up the principle of incardination, which binds most parish priests to serve permanently in the diocese in which they are ordained. Many churchmen feel that the rule is too rigid for the world of today. To equalize the distribution of priests-the U.S. has one for every 800 Catholics, Latin America one for every 10,000-the council may approve procedures that would let the Pope transfer clergy to areas where they are most needed. Thanks to a plethora of papal charters and privileges, most of the church's religious orders...
...which the church had three rival claimants for the papacy. This council, like the forthcoming Vatican Council, was convened by a Pope John XXIII; since historians now agree that he had not been validly elected, the present Pope was free to use the same numerals. The Council of Trent (1545-63) was a belated effort to reform the corrupt Catholic practices-notably, the traffic in indulgences-that Luther and Zwingli had criticized. A few Protestant theologians actually appeared at Trent in the winter of 1551, but, as Luther himself remarked: "The remedy comes too late; it will not achieve...
...many Protestants, the clock of Catholicism appears to have stopped in the Middle Ages; Küng says they are wrong. Some major reforms of attitudes and actions-notably as a result of the Jesuits, the Council of Trent, and Popes Leo XIII, Pius XII and John XXIII-have been accomplished within the church. Küng argues that many of these changes have answered the initial demands of the Reformers. In historical scholarship, European Catholic writers nowadays exude sympathy for the motives of Luther...
...Bahamas (no personal property tax; no real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent...
Early councils were primarily concerned with combating heresy and defining the truths that form the credo of most believing Christians; Trent and most of the medieval councils placed greater emphasis on tightening church discipline. Pope John's new council, frankly aimed at "modernizing" the church, will have plenty to do in both discipline and dogma. The Vatican Council of 1869-70, even though it was the first churchwide convocation in more than 300 years, did little more than define papal infallibility before it broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Thus, in its present battle against...