Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for worry is that despite growing interfaith cooperation among ordinary churchgoers, few of them are yearning for organic unity. "We're in favor of cooperation on all kinds of social levels, but we're not in favor of a monolithic structure," says one active Episcopal layman in Los Angeles...
...missing the boat if all they do is agitate." Instead of dreaming about bigger and better marches, church leaders appear to have returned with renewed zeal to tackle the major problems of the Negro in the North-education, housing and job opportunity. And, thanks to the astonishingly wide interfaith representation in Alabama-from conservative Lutheran to Orthodox Jew, from civil rights veterans to ministers who had never done more than sermonize on race-they are doing so on a broadly ecumenical basis...
...church. Among bishops, for example, there is widespread resentment against efforts of the Roman Curia to limit the council's reforms and the scope of the bishops' collegial power. Last week, the U.S. hierarchy's ecumenical commission met in Washington to formulate rules for interfaith contacts; it ignored an order limiting those contacts handed down recently by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the apostolic delegate (TIME, March...
...striking reform of the Vatican Council's third session last fall was the decree on ecumenism that authorized Roman Catholics, under certain circumstances, to participate in prayer services with Protestants and Jews. Many U.S. bishops assumed that the decree gave them considerable latitude to encourage interfaith contacts, and have done so. Now Rome has told them to slow down...
...orders came in a confidential letter to the bishops from Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, who as Apostolic Delegate in Washington serves as liaison between the American hierarchy and Rome. His letter warned that the Holy See is "deeply concerned" about "excesses" in interfaith religious services, which "give rise to great wonderment, and indeed bewilderment," among the faithful. "Until the Concilian Commission has established definitive norms regarding communicatio in sacris (worship in common), participation in such ceremonies should be avoided...