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...borne down the main aisle of St. Peter's on the sedia gestatoria as they would for one of their own? A Vatican watcher points to the answer: "I don't know of one Italian Cardinal who would feel happy voting for a foreigner." Agrees W.A. Visser't Hooft, founder of the World Council of Churches: "It would take a concerted conspiracy of the non-Italian Cardinals to force it through...
Soweto's white police commander, Brigadier Jan Visser, has promised that when the schools reopen this week, his men will be "circumspect, not interfere with the educational process and confine [themselves] to controlling criminal elements." But the authorities are committed to keeping schools open for any students who want to defy the boycott. If SSRC tries intimidation to keep children away, Pretoria is likely to counter with its tough, heavily armed and mostly white riot police. It was the presence of riot police in Soweto last June that enraged student protesters and ultimately led to the shootings. If police turn...
Despite those exuberant closing moments, however, the fifth septennial assembly of the World Council of Churches was a hesitant gathering at an uneasy time. Just before it opened, Founding Father W.A. Visser 't Hooft remarked: "If the meeting does not produce a new sense of purpose and dynamism, the council will be in trouble. It is time the churches stop looking at the council as a sort of fringe phenomenon." Last week, as the assembly ended, TIME's Religion Editor Richard Ostling cabled from Nairobi that the World Council is in as much danger as ever of being...
Potter becomes the third man to occupy the office since the World Council was founded in 1948. Scholarly Dutchman W.A. Visser 't Hooft, one of the organization's founding fathers, held the post until 1966, when he was succeeded by noted U.S. Presbyterian Ecumenist Eugene Carson Blake. Now 65, Blake is due to retire this fall. Potter will then take up a five-year term as ecumenical spokesman for more than 250 member denominations of the World Council, including Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox -some 400 million Christians in all. Since Protestants form the core of the organization...
Chamber Music by Dik Visser. Selection of flamenco and classical guitar pieces. MIT Kresge Auditorium. 8:30. April 12. Free...