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‘Miserable Document’ (N.Z.P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) VATICAN CITY, Nov. 9. Cardinals and prelates representing hundreds of bishops from Europe, Asia and Latin America attacked a draft text on the Roman Catholic Church’s missionary activity as inadequate at the Vatican Council In Rome yesterday. Bishop Daniel Raymond Lemont, of Umtaii, Rhodesia, said missionaries had been looking for. a powerful weapon but the council commission which composed the document had given them “bows and arrows.”
A council spokesman said the bishop was greeted with tremendous applause when he termed the document a “few dry, miserable propositions.” It was a text which would never inspire missionaries or fine the imagination of youth, he said.
Cardinals and bishops called for a full-scale draft decree which would tackle in greater depth the problem of evangelising 2,000 million non-Christians. The text under attack is one of several draft decrees reduced to a series of “propositions” after the assembly’s 1963 session, on orders of the council's coordinating commission.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30594, 10 November 1964, Page 14
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