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...contrast, the ecclesiastical statements of the council seemed mild and almost irrelevant. The document on worship, for example, suggested that there should be changes in language, vestments and ceremonies in order to make prayer services more intelligible. Ecumenically, the council took a major step forward by issuing, for the first time, an open invitation to the Roman Catholic Church to join the World Council. Although theologians recognize the practical problems that would be involved if Catholics should become mem bers of the council, churchmen active in Christian-unity proposals have long considered the prospect inevitable. Hardly an eyebrow was raised...
Another Arab invasion? Hardly. The emergency was an attempt by Reform Jews to hold a worship service with men and women praying together at the sacred Wailing Wall, the only remaining ruin of Judaism's Second Temple. Such a mixed service would defy an Orthodox rule that men and women must worship separately. Dissuaded from approaching the Wall by Orthodox protests, the Reform Jews suspended their service. The crisis over the Wall was the high point of the first conference in Jerusalem of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, an organization of Reform and Liberal congregations with a combined...
...crisis of faith has overtaken the churches more rigorous, perhaps, than was ever true before. Structures of church life and congregational worship are under serious questioning. The Bible has increasingly ceased to be a book to be listened to. It is asked whether even Jesus points beyond man to God. And yet, just because this is the situation, God's promise to make new must become explosive in our midst...
...Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single bloc. The ecumenical movement has slowed in the face of continued differences over fundamental issues of faith. Potentially most serious of all for the WCC is the emergence of "underground churches," in which growing numbers of Christians worship in far-out manners and modes that represent a revolt against the more rigid religious superstructure of the World Council...
...good. Grown-ups shouldn't want the bad guys to win. They can erase the black-and-white division between good and evil, or make it tougher for the good guys, or even cloud everything in ambiguity. But there are too many reasons around for not affirming devil worship to allow us to accept Polanski's recent films without pausing for thought...