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...social doctrine, the Vatican seems to have abandoned the rigid anti-Communist stand of Pius XII. Most notable sign of Rome's new drift was John XXIII's encyclical Mater et Magistra, which gave papal blessing to socialization that did not deny man's basic right to private property. Last February the Pope asked politically conservative Italian bishops to criticize Premier Amintore Fanfani's "opening to the left." Pope John is no friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom...
...come to the "end of the Constantinian era." In a world of permanent revolution, he argues, the church must think in universal terms and abandon a number of concepts that governed its past. Among these are the belief that the alliance of temporal and spiritual powers is "natural," the rigid juridical view of the church derived from Roman law, the unduly abstract understanding of man's nature derived from scholastic thought, the acceptance of Western social and economic forms as practical ideals. But such a long view or such a philosophic stance is hardly needed to sense the winds...
...rarefied world of theological scholarship, the rigid scholasticism of 19th century Catholicism has given way to a more open form of Thomism, capable of incorporating insights from Freud, Dewey, Sartre and even Marx. During the past 20 years, Catholic Bible scholars have begun to catch up with their Protestant counterparts, now are beginning to work with non-Catholics on new interdenominational translations of Scripture. In the late Jesuit Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the church possessed a religious figure who attempted-with near success-to bridge the wall between modern science and traditional faith...
...PRIESTS & RELIGIOUS. The Council of Trent set up the principle of incardination, which binds most parish priests to serve permanently in the diocese in which they are ordained. Many churchmen feel that the rule is too rigid for the world of today. To equalize the distribution of priests-the U.S. has one for every 800 Catholics, Latin America one for every 10,000-the council may approve procedures that would let the Pope transfer clergy to areas where they are most needed. Thanks to a plethora of papal charters and privileges, most of the church's religious orders...
Even though NDEA and NSF funds are still specified as "not for subversives," the new form of the specification permits the University to change its attitude toward the government from fixed, rigid rejection to a more flexible relation. The new law, although it creates problems, increases the freedom of the University and of individuals in the University to react intelligently toward individual offers of assistance from the government. As an increase in that freedom, the new law, and its energetic support from the White House, deserve to be hailed...