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That attitude began to change after 1960, when Catholics "arrived" with the election of John F. Kennedy as President. Then Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council muted the church's fierce anti-Communism and emphasized social justice and peace. Vatican II also led, in 1967, to an upgrading of the U.S. hierarchy's modest Washington office into the U.S. Catholic Conference, which now employs a staff of 250 people working on religious as well as social issues...
...cannot imagine that the Vatican would want to have anything to do with the Episcopal Church in America. And I am positive that Anglican evangelicals would never accept reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church...
...other big hurdle was Vatican I's declaration that the Pope has the power to define teachings of faith and morals infallibly. Here the two sides could not reach unanimity. But once again the Anglicans were remarkably open to papal authority. The accord concedes that there are occasions when the primate may need to state the judgment of the church without consulting a synod involving other leaders. But to do so, says the report, he must first seek to "discover the mind of his fellow bishops and of the church as a whole," a requirement which is light-years...
Many emotional controversies were not addressed, among them the Catholic ban on birth control; acceptance by some Anglican churches of abortion, divorce and women priests; the role of the laity in church government; the powers of the Vatican Curia; the question of who will choose bishops; and the rigorously Bible-based views of Anglican Evangelicals...
...climactic confrontation, John Paul sought to ease that-at least a little. During a 75-minute audience in the Vatican, he informed the group that some time this year Dezza would call a General Congregation to elect Arrupe's permanent successor. This assuaged the Jesuits' fear that the emergency regime would continue indefinitely. The call for the meeting will be only the first step in a complex procedure; the election itself will not take place until...