Religion: Council of Renewal

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they add, for John has never stopped talking about Christian unity as the aim of the council. "We must bestir ourselves," he told one group of missionaries, "and not rest until we have over come our old habits of thought, our prejudices and the use of expressions that are anything but courteous, so as to create a climate favorable to the reconciliation we look forward to."

And, of course, it is John himself who is summoning the church to the council of renewal.

*The 242 council fathers from the U.S., the most prosperous of the prelates, have the pick of available rooms. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman will stay, as he always does, at the Grand; 80 other bishops will stay at the Michelangelo, a sleek, air-conditioned hostelry within walking distance of St. Peter's. *A heretic takes exception to doctrine, a schismatic to discipline.