Word: vaticans
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...with a growing feeling of dismay, alongside a real sense of amusement to see in your story "Was Vatican I Rigged?" [Nov. 14] what a Catholic priest will do to explain away his loss of faith. Perhaps Father August Hasler believes that the Second Vatican Council was the only true council in church history. And so now begins the task of pulling apart Vatican I. Then perhaps he'll start on the Council of Trent...
...Pope is not infallible because Vatican I was rigged, he would still be infallible unless Vatican II (which reaffirmed the dogma) was also rigged...
...Cincinnati's moderate Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, is best known for administrative skill and intellect, both useful at a time of continuing conflict between the bishops and dissidents agitated about such things as Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still pending on proposals made...
Californian Quinn is the first person from west of the Mississippi to head the bishops' conference since it assumed new power in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. As a bishop in Oklahoma for 5% years, he earned a reputation for aloofness from his flock, but one of his early projects after moving to San Francisco was a series of intimate "listening sessions" with priests...
...Vatican suppressed opposition periodicals. Alessandro Cardinal Barnabo, the tyrannical head of the Propaganda Fide-the Vatican mission office, which then ran church affairs in Asia, Africa and much of the Western Hemisphere as well as the Eastern Rite Uniates-summoned missionary bishops one by one to remind them that they were employed and paid by the papacy...