A new mood of liberalism is eddying through the Roman Catholic Churchas the first session of the Second Vatican Council so amply proved. Last week, in the person of a frail, balding octogenarian cardinal and a slim, blond young Swiss priest, the U.S. had the opportunity to hear from two leading proponents of the progressive spirit in Catholicism.
Principal forum for Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, chief of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, was Harvard's Sanders Theater, where a hushed overflow audience listened intently to his message. Bea's three lectures were part of an impressive four-day theological colloquium, inspired...
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