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A year ago Pope Paul introduced the first new conservative, now he has named Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, a friend of Simonis, bishop to the diocese of Roermond.

>The seven Roman Catholic bishops of The Netherlands, who presented such a progressive front at the Second Vatican Council, have suffered another breach in their ranks. A year ago Pope Paul introduced the first new conservative into the Dutch hierarchy by appointing Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam, ignoring…

More Trouble in Holland

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The appointment by the pope of Simonis as bishop plunged the Vatican and the Dutch church into confrontation once again. Liberals were furious that Paul had bypassed three candidates.

Just a year ago this month, the Dutch Pastoral Council of the Roman Catholic Church voted for a policy statement against compulsory celibacy. During the debates preceding that vote (TIME, Jan. 19, 1970), one of the few voices arguing to preserve the old celibacy rule was a young-looking parish priest…

The Brussels Declaration

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Theologians met in Brussels to discuss “The Future of the Church.” When Schillebeeckx and his colleagues offered 28 rough-draft resolutions for the congress to consider, the lid came off.

Not since the Reformation has Roman Catholic theology been such a popular topic as in the years following the Second Vatican Council. New opinions by theologians on such diverse subjects as sexual morality, original sin, papal infallibility and even the nature of the Mass and sacraments have provoked applause, shock…

The Vatican announced that all Catholic priests would be asked to make an annual public affirmation of their vows of celibacy and obedience. Another negative answer for the Dutch.

. . . A priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec.

—the Rite of Ordination

THE Vatican last week announced that all Catholic priests would henceforth be asked to make an annual public affirmation of their vows of celibacy and obedience. The day chosen for this oath was Holy…

Celibacy, No!

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Last week, once again, Dutch Catholics demonstrated that they are still the vanguard. The Dutch Pastoral Council, voted 93 to 2 against obligatory celibacy as a condition of priesthood.

Celibacy, No! Ever since the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church of The Netherlands has been the single most progressive force in Catholic reformation. Last week, once again, Dutch Catholics demonstrated that they are still the vanguard. The Dutch Pastoral Council, a representative church body composed of bishops, priests,…

The Dutch provincial of the Augustinian order has proposed opening convents to men & women of any Christian faith, married or single. Rome has threatened to disband the Dutch province.

DECEMBER is the darkest month. The sun is lowest in the sky. The nights are longest. Yet in its midst—perhaps in their hunger for warmth and light in the nadir of seasons—believers of the Western world have immemorially celebrated hope. In recent years, God has seemed to many…

Renewal for the Cloister

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Some cloisters renewal started long before the Vatican issued its decree. Most of the 51 cloistered communities in The Netherlands already have TV. One convent packs birth-control pills.

To the secular mind, the vision of monks and nuns living silently and praying ceaselessly behind cloister walls has always seemed, at best, a kind of regrettable eccentricity—harmless enough, but useless too. Yet the Roman Catholic Church, and such Protestant sympathizers as the Monks of Taizé in France, have…

The Dutch Pastoral Council that outlines policy for the country’s Catholics, rejected Pope Paul’s encyclical Humanae Vitae as “not convincing on the basis of the argumentation given.”

The church in The Netherlands is perhaps the most independent and autonomy-minded in the Roman Catholic fold. Time and again, it has challenged Rome’s ideas of orthodoxy. Last week the Dutch defied the Vatican again, this time with particular force. Meeting in the North Sea town of Noordwijkerhout, the…

Rebellion in the Catholic church: Many Dutch Catholic thinkers are suggesting that their national church might have to become as autonomous as Anglicanism in order to preserve its soul.

COVER STORY JULY 29, 1968, may prove to be a major landmark in the long history of the Roman Catholic Church—as significant, perhaps, as the moment when Martin Luther decided to post his theses on indulgences at Wittenberg Castle Church. On that day last summer, Pope Paul VI promulgated…

As usual, the bishops of Holland’s avant-garde church were the first to take issue with the Pope’s encyclical against contraception.

The Pope’s encyclical against contraception is continuing to meet remarkable resistance from Catholics on all levels of the church. A sharp reminder of that fact occurred when Pat rick Cardinal O’Boyle was the speaker at the Sunday noon Mass at St. Mat thew’s Cathedral in Washington. Instead of delivering a…

Theologian on Trial

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It maybe that one of the best-known and most creative theologians in the Roman Catholic Church will have to stand trial for doctrinal error, Dominican Father Edward Schillebeeckx.

It may come to pass that one of the best-known and most creative theologians in the Roman Catholic Church will have to stand trial for doctrinal error, an accusation not far short of heresy. Dominican Father Edward Schillebeeckx, the principal theological adviser to the Dutch hierarchy, has been under investigation…

Catechism in Dutch

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In the U.S. some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism, a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine.

Catechism in Dutch

Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most recent radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of…

Reformation Day Looks Ahead

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Nowhere is ecumenical enthusiasm for Reformation Day greater than in the NL. Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars have participated in preparing a series of documentaries on Luther.

On Oct. 29, Reformation Sunday, members of ten Protestant churches in Albert Lea, Minn., will proceed in a motorcade to the Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbey of St. John’s at Collegeville. There, leaders of the churches will hand over the proceeds of a special collection as a contribution toward completing a…

More Sparks from Holland

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Dutch clerics are involved in theological disputes with Rome over two bestselling books that deal with fundamental church issues.

Pope Paul VI issued yet another statement last week cautioning the faithful about ultra-reformist tendencies in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.

The Pontiff rebuked those who are trying “to attribute to the council every type of novelty, even going so far as to question fundamental doctrines of Catholicism,…

In The Netherlands a branch of the church has suddenly become the acknowledged center of avant-garde thinking within Catholicism, openly discussing a break from the formal dogma.

The Second Vatican Council unleashed a passion for change in the Roman Catholic Church that has shown no signs of subsiding. And nowhere has the urge to question and challenge the past taken deeper roots than in The Netherlands, where a branch of the church once noted for its stodgy…

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