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SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE (Pa.) Augustin Cardinal Bea, J.D., head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity...
...warning did not reflect any lessening of ecumenical interest on the part of Pope Paul VI, who last month authorized Augustin Cardinal Bea to set up a theological "working group" to explore the possibilities of collaboration with the World Council of Churches...
...latest curial maneuver came to light in a letter that Augustin Cardinal Bea gloomily read out to the bishops and theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives...
...criticism could have been avoided. Last fall, Augustin Cardinal Bea, venerable head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, prepared a declaration denying that there was a Scriptural basis for condemning the entire Jewish people as "deicides" because some Jews were involved in the death of Jesus. Jews were generally pleased by Bea's draft, but between sessions it was rewritten by the Council's Coordinating Commission, which added a few sentences of praise for Islam and a vaguely worded hope for Jewish conversion; by implication, it reaffirmed the deicide charge by asserting that Jews...
...scandal to those outside the church and tended to obscure Christ's unique mediation with God. Mexican Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo dryly pointed out that if Mary were to be titled "Mother of the Church," which is the mother of men, she becomes everybody's grandmother. And Augustin Cardinal Bea, of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, argued that any title implying a new Marian doctrine would do grave harm to the cause of ecumenism...