Word: vatican
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...federation is, in effect, an outgrowth of a larger movement within the church to give priests a more meaningful voice in the ecclesiastical structure. One conspicuous sign of this has been the creation in the past two years of priests' senates. In 1965, the Second Vatican Council decreed that each diocese should establish "a group or senate of priests to give effective assistance to the bishop in his government of the diocese." This was a rather radi cal advance, and there was some doubt that the senates would have any effective voice. But already senates have been...
Raises & Retirement. Undeniably, there have been a few disappointments. The Vatican Council left it up to bishops to determine the selection of the senates, and though some prelates have given their priests a free hand in elections, others have insisted on naming a significant number of the senators. Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal McIntyre has yet to make a move toward creating a council. In Washington, D.C., the priest-senators are reluctant to speak up before conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, who sits in on the bimonthly meetings. Detroit's senate, though it enjoys the encouragement...
Among the most impatient and influential advocates of greater freedom in the Catholic Church is Hans Küng, 39, Swiss-born priest and professor of theology at West Germany's Tubingen University. One of the officially invited theological advisers at Vatican II, Küng has earned both liberal praise and conservative censure for his provocative criticisms of his church. Last week, wearing his usual necktie instead of a Roman collar, Küng arrived in the U.S. for his first extended visit in five years. An enthusiastic ecumenist, he will teach courses in divine justification...
...minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...
...wear secular clothing, including skirts and blouses in classrooms. Mclntyre, an archfoe of Catholic renewal, let the sisters know that unless they modified the reforms they could no longer teach in his schools. The nuns refused, on the ground that they are directly under the jurisdiction of the Vatican, and last month sent an open letter to parents of parochial-school children declaring that "after 82 years in Los Angeles, we are being asked to stop teaching." The Los Angeles chancery responded with a frontpage editorial in the archdiocesan weekly, The Tidings, insisting that the sisters, of their own accord...