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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wicks, Jared

Titel

LIGHT FROM GERMANY ON VATICAN COUNCIL II

Ist Teil von

• The Catholic Historical Review, 2013, Vol.99 (4), p.727-748

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Project MUSE Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In September 1963 Pope Paul VI named Döpfner one of the four Council Moderators, along with Cardinals Gregorio P. Agagianian, Giacomo Lercaro, and Léon-Joseph Suenens.4 The 2006 publication gives Döpfner's diary notes that add to what is known about the 1962 meetings of the Council's Secretariat for Extraordinary Affairs.5 At its first meeting on October 16,1962, the Secretariat received a written proposal by Cardinal Augustin Bea that Pope John's discourses should give the Council a broadly open, pastoral direction. Döpfner urged that the Fathers should be told at least about the range of themes that the Council would take up.7 At the Secretariat's fourth meeting on November 5, Döpfner proposed a method (subsequently adopted) for voting in the General Congregation to close discussion on a topic.8 On November 9, at the fifth meeting, the group accepted Döpfner's proposal that all the schemas should be reduced to their essential points.9 This anticipated the directives given by Pope John to all the Council commissions as Period I ended.