Word: vaticans
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...full reunion is the power and the office of the papacy itself. The Orthodox hold that religious authority derives from the church as a whole and is expressed through ecumenical councils. In Catholicism, the Pope is the ultimate arbiter. This split seemingly became unbridgeable in 1870 when the First Vatican Council declared papal infallibility in formal teachings and defined the Pope's "immediate" jurisdiction over every diocese in the world. Orthodoxy might accept the Pope as primate, but only as a first among equals with the right to initiate and coordinate action, a slow and often exasperating process...
...Being a Christian by Hans Küng (Doubleday, 1976). A work of fairly serious theology that became a big seller, this book by Küng, liberal Swiss priest and thorn in the side of the Vatican, offers a revisionist review of such Christian dogmas as the Resurrection...
Jesus: An Experiment in Christology by Edward Schillebeeckx (Seabury, 1979). A study of Jesus by a leader in Dutch Catholic theology whose doubts and questions about the nature of Christ's divinity and Resurrection have stirred the Vatican's disapproval...
John Paul said last week that the Cardinals' new role will not "weaken or diminish" the synod, which he has already called to meet next fall. He indicated that the Cardinals' meetings will treat questions linked with the papacy and the Vatican, while the synods will cover broader church life...
...Paul VI paid lip service to collegiality and established the synod, but he really never implemented the Second Vatican Council's concept of consultation...