Word: vatican
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...million, compared to an estimated 496 million Roman Catholics). Martin Niemoeller, outspoken German pacifist, envisioned a papal effort "to wean away the Eastern Orthodox churches from the World Council. I do not think this will work. The council has more practical experience in modern inter-church cooperation than the Vatican. But perhaps the Orthodox churches could serve as a bridge, helping the Vatican to break through its traditional isolation...
This photographic and popularized version of the Scriptures, approved by the Vatican, is outselling in Italy the Holy Bible itself. It appears in La Bibbia (The Bible), a Milanese fumetto magazine, named for the fumetti, or "little puffs of smoke," in which, as in U.S. cartoon balloons, the dialogue drifts above the heads of the characters...
During his 20 years as a Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria and in Greece and Turkey, John is said to have grown optimistic about the possibilities of closer relations with the Eastern church...
Last week one leading Vatican spokesman said that "the chances of healing the rift between the Roman and Orthodox churches are better now than they have been for hundreds of years." A major factor in the new climate has been Vatican support of the Orthodox churches against increasing pressure from Moscow. But one immovable foundation of Roman doctrine seems to stand in the path of reunion: the insistence that the Bishop of Rome is successor of St. Peter, Vicar of Christ and supreme ruler of all Christians...
...World Council of Churches commented that much would depend on "how ecumenical the council will be, in composition and spirit." There are "enormous" possibilities for cooperation (e.g., joint action against Communist oppression, prevention of atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical movement," he said, "but not under Roman Catholic sponsorship...