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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christianized? Last spring Maurice Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, asked permission from the Vatican's Holy Office to revive the worker-priests under strict controls. Back from Rome came a firm no. Last week, as French cardinals and bishops met in Paris to discuss the situation, the Holy Office's confidential directive was published in Le Monde (after an obvious leak, perhaps from a disgruntled French prelate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: End of the Worker-Priests | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Vatican Radio last week confirmed what Protestants have suspected ever since Catholic observers held "informal" discussions with Eastern Orthodox delegates at the World Council of Churches meeting in Rhodes last month (TIME, Aug. 31 et seq.). There will be an unofficial conference in Venice next year between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologians to discuss points of agreement and disagreement between the two churches. The main-and massive-stumbling block to possible union: recognition of the Pope as head of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Appointment in Venice | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which would be most involved in any reconciliation talks, turned the damper on by describing the meeting at Rhodes as little different from other contacts in past years between Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic scholars. He denied that the Vatican was planning a full-dress conference with Orthodox leaders in the next year or two. But he hastened to add: "Certainly, if such a conference should have favorable prospects, no one could object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Repercussions from Rhodes | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...also French-born and white, this was too much. He notified parish priests up and down the island of the expulsions, followed with a denunciation of the government's action. Duvalier retaliated with a warrant for the archbishop's arrest for violating the 1860 Haiti-Vatican Concordat, which binds priests "to do nothing against the interests of the republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Beset President | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Duvalier had overreached himself; as the Vatican hinted at automatic excommunication and Catholic Haiti throbbed with unrest, the President backed off. At week's end the regime announced "the arrest is halted'' but blustered that "the President will not permit anyone to discredit the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Beset President | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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