Word: vatican
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...that he saw that he wanted to make films. He started as an extra and errand boy for Jean Epstein during the filming of "Mauprat," then spent six months in Hollywood hanging around the studios and dining with Charlie Chaplin. Back in France, he did "Les Caves du Vatican," which was spliced under a magnifying glass because they'd run out of money...
...what Roach described as an era of "occasional misunderstandings, misperceptions and tensions," many theologians detect a new vitality and dynamism in the U.S. church, typified by the bishops' pastoral letter this year condemning the nuclear arms race. Asserts Father Carl Peter of Catholic University, a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission: "The church in this country is healthy and reaching a new stage of maturity." He adds: "While remaining authentically Roman Catholic, we are becoming more and more distinctly American...
Since the Most Rev. Raymond ("Dutch") Hunthausen became Archbishop of Seattle in 1975, his flock of 287,000 has become accustomed to such unusual rituals. The Vatican has been inundated with complaints from conservative parishioners, including one from the parents of the man whose coffin was decorated with balloons. Three weeks ago, Pope John Paul dispatched Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, D.C., on an extraordinary "apostolic visitation" to probe what Hunthausen has wrought...
Critics claim that Hunthausen's pastoral solicitude runs only in a leftward direction. One witness, Father Paul Auer, was forced into retirement at age 59 and has petitioned Rome for reinstatement. "The Archbishop said I was unfit to be a pastor in this post-Vatican II age," he told TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. He said he was upset by "liberal theologians who come here with the idea of remaking the church, always in the spirit of Vatican II," and he railed against such practices as entertainment in church, which in his view turns the Mass into "just a meal...
Jesuit Father William Sullivan, president of Seattle University, sees the archdiocese as a paradigm of a nationwide tension between liberals and conservatives. On one side are people like Hunthausen, "a man of Vatican II" who favors the "democratic mentality." On the other stands "the older notion of top-down authority" reinforced by the Pope...