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...weeks after the closed-door meeting began on Dec. 1, Arrupe circulated a letter he had received from Jean Cardinal Villot, the Vatican Secretary of State, informing him that Pope Paul did not want any changes made concerning the vow. The Pope did not explain why, but speculation is that he favors the elitist tradition and fears anything that might hasten radical changes. The fathers nevertheless debated the fourth vow; some proposed doing away with it altogether. Last week, however, the Congregation voted to extend it to all Jesuit priests. (Nonordained Jesuit brothers would still be excluded, as they...
Leaked Letters. Behind Villot's December letter-and the Congregation's decision to ignore it-lay a long-smoldering feud. Many conservative Jesuits have protested that during Arrupe's nine-year reign the order has been disintegrating, particularly in discipline and in loyalty to the Pope's teachings. In addition, Cardinal Villot and his aides have passed on to the Pope complaints of conservative bishops throughout the world who were upset by the social radicalism of some of the Jesuits operating in their sees...
...follow-up article in the Observer, he called the archbishop the Vatican's "universal hatchet man," adding that "there is no need for an embattled war psychosis which sees enemies lurking in every corner." Although Benelli is technically only a deputy to Papal Secretary of State Jean Villot, he functions as a kind of chief of staff to Pope Paul, overseeing and coordinating the activities of the entire Vatican bureaucracy, except in the area of diplomatic relations. Nicknamed "the Berlin Wall," he has the reputation of being authoritarian in administrative matters and an alarmist. Archbishop Benelli, conceded Hebblethwaite...
...Cardinal Villot's lax concern about the population explosion [Feb. 1] is the reflection of the most serious shortcoming of the Judeo-Christian belief, namely that it is legitimate for humans to ruthlessly exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then...
...Such difficult decisions we are facing these days. Cardinal Villot accuses birth control advocates of pressuring people by offering transistor radios and other gifts. But his offer is much more difficult to refuse-eternal life...