Word: vatican
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Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
...visit to the Vatican last week by the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Anglican Primate of All England, was shadowed by enmities past and lighted by amity present. Apart from a 1960 "courtesy visit" to John XXIII by Ramsey's predecessor, Geoffrey Fisher, no Archbishop of Canterbury had called on a Pope since Archbishop Arundel went to see Boniface IX in 1397, long before Henry VIII broke with Rome. Distrust of the papacy still persists strongly in Britain. Hitchhiking aboard the airliner winging Ramsey to Rome were five unwelcome ministers of Baptist and Presbyterian sects, who on arrival doffed their...
...shook hands with Canterbury and the other Anglicans; only the ecumenical-minded Augustin Cardinal Bea bowed. Then Paul and Canterbury retired to the Pope's private study for a 65-minute private discussion. Next day they met for prayers together at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the (Vatican) Walls...
...Sacrament of Matrimony is one of those masterly documents that demonstrate the Vatican's genius for adjusting to the changing spirit of the times while upholding the integrity of its traditional teachings: it qualifies every categorical "must" with an implied "but." Mixed marriages, to be valid in the eyes of the church, must be performed by a Catholic priest. But henceforth, the clergyman of the other partner's faith may be present at the wedding ceremony, deliver a sermon, say prayers. The non-Catholic partner must be "clearly told of the obligation to raise the children...
...bishops of pluralistic Germany and The Netherlands spearheaded the drive for easier mixed marriages. The more conservative U.S. bishops and those of Ireland feared that easing the rules might undermine the faith of the Catholic spouse. In November 1964, on the motion of Julius Cardinal Dopfner of Munich, the Vatican Council voted 1,562 to 427 to hand over the drafting of the decree to the Pope; last week's decree was the result. Protestants responded with reserved satisfaction; a Church of England spokesman called the rules "a hopeful beginning...