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85-403: Danneels is a Belgian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Godfried Danneels (1933–2019), Belgian cardinal Gustave Danneels (1913–1976), Belgian cyclist See also [ edit ] Daneels [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Danneels . If an internal link intending to refer to

170-537: A "structure to help families sanctify the Lord's Day." In Numbers 28:1–10 and Exodus 29:38–39 , "God commanded the daily offerings in the tabernacle to be made once in the morning and then again at twilight". In Psalm 92 , which is a prayer concerning the observance of the Sabbath, the prophet David writes "It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in

255-402: A broadcast of the "Katholieke Televisie- en Radio-Omroep" (Catholic Television and Radio Broadcasting Organization): "... [whether or not to liberalize the law on euthanasia] is a choice between two civilizations, a civilization of people who are, or want to be, in complete control of themselves, and a civilization in which there is still room for a God and for what transcends man ... I think it

340-547: A liturgist, took place in St. James' , as the Antwerp cathedral was being restored at the time. Three days after his consecration he invited Catholics to write him personally with suggestions for their new bishop and he made the rounds of his diocese to consult with people. He used the media, extensively and successfully, to expound his vision of Christian humanism. In this he can be claimed to have been "modern". But in many ways he

425-617: A liturgy committee, composed mainly of Western theologians. The liturgy so prepared was first used at the Synod Session in 1950 and approved for use throughout the church "wherever it is desired" in 1954. The first version of the Confirmation Service for the new church was also released in 1950, translated into regional languages and was quickly adopted by the various dioceses. By 1962 the Liturgy Committee

510-516: A man and a woman, therefore you have to put another word in the dictionary. But that it is lawful, that the law can legitimately provide for it, that's something about which the Church has nothing to say. Long before Belgium liberalized its law on euthanasia , in a press conference on 31 January 1994, Danneels gave voice to the Belgian bishops' opposition to the idea. The issue resurfaced again, with

595-501: A night; Lauds at the end of Matins, generally at the break of day; Prime at 6 AM; Terce at 9AM; Sext at noon; None at 3PM; Vespers at the rising of the Vespers or Evening Star (usually about 6PM); and Compline was said at the end of the day, generally right before bed time. In Anglican churches, the offices were combined into two offices: Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer , the latter sometimes known as Evensong. In more recent years,

680-477: A priest since 1963 and the Bishop of Bruges since early 1985, sexually abused a nephew of his. Rik Devillé, a priest who had had a couple of conflicts with Danneels, said, after the scandal broke on 23 April 2010, that he had warned Danneels about Vangheluwe in the mid-1990s. In 2010, Danneels said that he did not remember this. But Danneels certainly knew about Vangheluwe's crime before the scandal broke because, in

765-431: A private letter to Guy Verhofstadt , whose government had approved this. But he has always been opposed to calling such a statute "marriage". He repeated these views ten years later, in a newspaper interview in which he said: [The Church] has never opposed the fact that there should exist a sort of 'marriage' between homosexuals, but one therefore speaks of a 'sort of' marriage. But it is not true marriage, that between

850-468: A prominent role until 1993. The bishops' synods were being reduced to rubber stamping the decisions of Rome, and neither the bishops' collegiality nor Vatican centralism could be discussed. The result of this change was threefold: After the 2013 conclave he again felt at ease in Rome, but by then he had already retired as archbishop. As primate of Belgium, Danneels officiated at every great ceremony at

935-603: A secular court in Belgium. Danneels said that he had known nothing about the abuse. The court held that the Catholic Church in Belgium—not the archbishop himself nor his auxiliary bishop—was guilty of failing to protect the victim, was civilly responsible, and imposed a fine of half a million Belgian francs (now ± €12,500 ). On appeal this verdict was quashed and only the abusive priest was held guilty. On 6 December 1999

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1105-411: A speech ("My best synod speech ever") Danneels stressed the values that were the foundations of Humanae vitae , but called for objectively analyzing the reasons why so many Catholics refused its teachings, and pointed out that many divorced Catholics no longer saw how canon law could be reconciled with the demands of God's mercy. Toward the end of the synod, on 24 October, his prestige was such that he

1190-542: A student were uniformly very good, including an A− for canon law , and a magna cum laude for his license. Well before the end of his studies, he was ordained to the priesthood by Emiel Jozef De Smedt , Bishop of Bruges , in a ceremony in the Kanegem parish church on 17 August 1957, the 25th wedding anniversary of his parents. In 1959, De Smedt appointed him spiritual director of the Bruges episcopal seminary and at

1275-855: A three-year course of Neo Scholastic philosophy (1951–1954). Leuven, with which he remained "in love" his entire life, opened the world for him intellectually. From Leuven he was sent to Rome, where he studied Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University whilst living in the Belgian Papal College (1954–1959). With a few exceptions, he judged the quality of his courses there inferior to those in Leuven, but Rome greatly enriched him culturally. Danneels obtained his bachelor's degree in June 1956, his license in 1958, and his doctorate in 1961. His results as

1360-510: A vengeance, in the spring of 2008, when famous Belgian author Hugo Claus chose euthanasia on 19 March and when three days later Danneels devoted his homily during the Easter Vigil to "the problem of suffering and death", without, however, mentioning Claus by name. Even so, this homily was widely interpreted as criticism of Claus' choice and heavily criticized. But shortly afterwards, on 13 April 2008, Danneels doubled down in "Het Braambos",

1445-478: Is an excrescence of a typical evolution, I would almost say a cancerous growth of consciousness, which was happy waking up during the Renaissance but which has taken almost cancerous proportions now, which is running amok." From the beginning of his archbishopric, Danneels kept cultivating the good contacts between "Mechelen" and Anglicanism that were started by Cardinal Mercier in the 1920s. Likewise from

1530-533: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Godfried Danneels Godfried Maria Jules Danneels (4 June 1933 – 14 March 2019) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Belgium from 1979 to 2010. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. Born in Kanegem , West Flanders, Godfried Danneels

1615-653: Is dubious, for he did not attend the Second Vatican Council . But he did play a very active role in the implementation of the liturgical reforms of Sacrosanctum Concilium , not only in the Bruges diocese, but in all of Belgium and even abroad. He was very much taken with these reforms, for in Belgium and the Netherlands many had been foreshadowed in liturgical experiments. However, he did not call for liturgical revolution in his writings and talks, favoring steady and measured innovation instead. Even so, from

1700-713: Is still authoritative in the Church of England and has served as the basis for many of Books of Common Prayer of national Anglican churches around the world. Those deriving from Scottish Episcopal descent, like the Prayer Books of the American Episcopal Church, have a slightly different liturgical pedigree. The Methodist liturgical tradition is based on the Anglican heritage and was passed along to Methodists by John Wesley (an Anglican priest who led

1785-535: Is termed in the Byzantine Rite, is an extended vespers service used on the eve of a major Feast day, or in conjunction with the divine liturgy, or certain other special occasions. In the Maronite Church 's liturgies, the office is arranged so that the liturgical day begins at sundown. The first office of the day is the evening office of Ramsho, followed by the night office of Sootoro, concluding with

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1870-858: Is the common term used in the Lutheran Church in Europe but more often referred to as the Divine Service , Holy Communion, or the Holy Eucharist in North American Lutheranism. Lutherans retained and utilized much of the Roman Catholic mass since the early modifications by Martin Luther . The general order of the mass and many of the various aspects remain similar between the two traditions. Latin titles for

1955-507: Is to pray these offices mid-week during Advent and Lent. The office of Compline is also found in some older Lutheran worship books and more typically used in monasteries and seminaries . The Byzantine Rite maintains a daily cycle of seven non-sacramental services: The sundry Canonical Hours are, in practice, grouped together into aggregates so that there are three major times of prayer a day: Evening, Morning and Midday; for details, see Canonical hours — Aggregates . Great Vespers as it

2040-522: The Anglican tradition's Book of Common Prayer . In most cases, congregations also use other elements of liturgical worship, such as candles, vestments , paraments, banners, and liturgical art. Because John Wesley advocated outdoor evangelism , revival services are a traditional worship practice of Methodism that are often held in local churches, as well as at outdoor camp meetings , brush arbour revivals , and at tent revivals . The liturgy of

2125-671: The Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels on 19 December 1979. He thus became Primate of Belgium, president of the Belgian Conference of Catholic Bishops, chancellor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université catholique de Louvain and head of the nation's Catholic military ordinariate , at first as vicar , from 1987 as bishop. Pope John Paul II followed the tradition that

2210-783: The Church of South India combines many traditions, including that of the Methodists and such smaller churches as the Church of the Brethren and the Disciples of Christ. After the formation of the Church of South India the first synod met at Madurai in March 1948 and appointed a liturgical committee. The first Synod in 1948 (where the Holy Communion service was that of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland) appointed

2295-542: The Liturgical Movement which flowered in the mid/late 20th century. Over the course of the past several decades, these Protestant traditions have developed remarkably similar patterns of liturgy, drawing from ancient sources as the paradigm for developing proper liturgical expressions. Of great importance to these traditions has been a recovery of a unified pattern of Word and Sacrament in Lord's Day liturgy. Many other Protestant Christian traditions (such as

2380-675: The Lord's Day (with many offering Sunday morning and Sunday evening services); a number of traditions have mid-week Wednesday evening services as well. In some Christian denominations, liturgies are held daily, with these including those in which the canonical hours are prayed, as well as the offering of the Eucharistic liturgies such as Mass , among other forms of worship. In addition to this, many Christians attend services of worship on holy days such as Christmas , Ash Wednesday , Good Friday , Ascension Thursday , among others depending on

2465-796: The hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer". In the Western Catholic Church, there are multiple forms of the office. The Liturgy of the Hours is the official form of the office used throughout the Latin Church , but many other forms exist including the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary , the forms of the office specific to various religious orders, and the Roman Breviary which

2550-591: The 31st European Taizé meeting in Brussels. Danneels was a member of the World Council of Religions for Peace , on which he sat until 2004. Starting in the summer of 2002, he was also active in one of its projects, the European Council of Religious Leaders , in which he remained involved through the first decade of the 21st century. Danneels was involved in the negotiations about the convent of

2635-705: The Anglicans have added the offices of Noonday and Compline to Morning and Evening Prayer as part of the Book of Common Prayer . The Anglican Breviary , containing 8 full offices, is not the official liturgy of the Anglican Church. In Lutheranism , like Anglicanism, the offices were also combined into the two offices of Matins and Vespers (both of which are still maintained in modern Lutheran prayer books and hymnals). A common practice among Lutherans in America

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2720-669: The Baptized Persons, Order for Holy Baptism, Order for the Churching of Women, Order for Holy Matrimony, Order for the Burial Service, Order for the Covenant Service, Order for Ordination Services. The CSI liturgy was again revised in the year 2004 and published as a hardback book in 2006. The CSI Synod Liturgical Committee has developed several new orders for worship for different occasions. The order for

2805-774: The Bible. English Puritans and separatists moved away from set forms in the 17th-century, but many Reformed churches retained liturgies and continue to use them today. At the time of English Reformation , The Sarum Rite was in use along with the Roman Rite. Reformers in England wanted the Latin mass translated into the English language. Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer authored the Exhortation and Litany in 1544. This

2890-513: The Carmelite nuns at Auschwitz after father Werenfried van Straaten had proposed, in 1985, to convert its temporary location in the former theater building into a full-fledged convent. Danneels involvement lasted until 1989, when Rome decided the issue and promised the nuns would move out. (But they remained until 1993, and left behind the Auschwitz cross .) Between 1990 and 1999, Danneels

2975-545: The Christian denomination. In most Christian traditions, liturgies are presided over by clergy wherever possible. The holding of church services pertains to the observance of the Lord's Day in Christianity. The Bible has a precedent for a pattern of morning and evening worship that has given rise to Sunday morning and Sunday evening services of worship held in the churches of many Christian denominations today,

3060-476: The Church must cooperate. But even if that is accepted, Danneels was widely reproached for inaction in a matter in which the public expected him to be decisive. As an editorial in De Standaard of 1 September 2010 put it: "For days he kept the shock of Vangheluwe's confession to himself. He did not contact the ex-bishop again to convince him of what was inevitable: his immediate resignation. He did not refer

3145-484: The Congregation's "Instruction of Christian Freedom and Liberation", did not proclaim a definitive condemnation of liberation theology. In March and April 1990, King Boudewijn's refusal to sign the law liberalizing abortion , drafted by Roger Lallemand and by Lucienne Herman-Michielsens and approved by Parliament, provoked a constitutional crisis. Both Danneels and Prime Minister Wilfried Martens had foreseen

3230-622: The Doctrine of the Faith, to which he had already been appointed in 1978, he was a member of: He was also a member of the permanent secretariat of the episcopal synod and participated in a number of synods But his own enthusiasm about the government of the Church by the Vatican waned. He did not approve of the way Pope John Paul II restricted the role of bishops' conferences like CELAM (1992) and especially of CCEE (1993)., in which he played

3315-544: The King's refusal, and in the spring of 1989, Danneels had offered Martens to mediate in case of just such a crisis. Danneels had often discussed the moral dilemma the King faced, but denies mediating after the King's decision was taken. The words of two Ministers of State , Philippe Moureaux and Mark Eyskens , have been interpreted as meaning that he did. But neither Moureaux ["On évoquait une discrète et prudente intervention du cardinal" (A discreet and prudent intervention of

3400-496: The King, before, during or after this constitutional crisis, he has always respected any "colloque singulier" he had with the King. Since King Boudewijn is dead, Danneels took the secret of what he told the King to his grave. The claim that he advised the King to sign is pure speculation. Danneels flatly denied he did: "Ik heb alvast nooit geprobeerd hem om te praten" (I certainly never tried to talk him [the King] round). Shortly after

3485-523: The Mechelen archbishop be made a cardinal, and created him Cardinal-Priest of Santa Anastasia in the consistory of 2 February 1983. There are two rather distinct periods in Danneels' career as Cardinal-Archbishop. In its first ten to fifteen years, Danneels' relations with Rome were excellent. He was appointed to a number of pontifical congregations and councils. In addition to the Congregation for

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3570-754: The Methodists . Wesley's Sunday Service has shaped the official liturgies of the Methodists ever since. The United Methodist Church has official liturgies for services of Holy Communion , baptism , weddings , funerals , ordination , anointing of the sick for healing, and daily office "praise and prayer" services. Along with these, there are also special services for holy days such as All Saints Day , Ash Wednesday , Maundy Thursday , Good Friday , and Easter Vigil . All of these liturgies and services are contained in The United Methodist Hymnal and The United Methodist Book of Worship (1992) . Many of these liturgies are derived from

3655-566: The Pentecostal/Charismatics, Assembly of God , and Non-denominational churches), while often following a fixed "order of worship", tend to have liturgical practices that vary from that of the broader Christian tradition. There are common elements found in most Western liturgical churches which predate the Protestant Reformation . These include: The term "Divine Office" describes the practice of "marking

3740-478: The archiepiscopal palace, Danneels' private apartment, the Leuven seat of the Adriaenssens Commission and even St. Rumbold's Cathedral (where the graves of Cardinal Mercier and Cardinal Suenens were broken into) were simultaneously searched for documents about cases of sexual abuse that could still be prosecuted (unlike that of Vangheluwe, beyond the statute of limitation). On 6 July, Danneels

3825-458: The authorities began proceedings against Robert Borremans; a priest of the archdiocese, well known because he had been the choral conductor at the marriage of Philippe and Mathilde (now King and Queen). Danneels relieved him of his pastoral tasks and had him struck from the government's payroll. Though convicted at first, Borremans was cleared in the end, when the allegations against him were found to be false. From 1973 to 1986, Roger Vangheluwe ,

3910-401: The beginning of April 2010, Vangheluwe had himself told Danneels that he had had a sexual contact with a minor. What Danneels did, or did not do, in the few weeks before the scandal broke, earned him a great deal of criticism, both at home and abroad. On 8 April, Vangheluwe pressured Danneels to accept a meeting with himself, his victim and the victim's relatives. At that meeting Danneels advised

3995-576: The beginning of his archbishopric, Danneels made almost yearly visits to the Taizé Community . He mediated with the Vatican to make Pope John Paul II's visit to Taizé on 5 October 1986 happen. He regularly met with Brother Roger , on whom the Catholic University bestowed an honorary doctorate in 1990. But after Brother Roger's death, too, he kept fostering relations with Taizé, and from 29 December 2008 through 2 January 200 he hosted

4080-486: The bishop of Ghent. That contact point was the model of the "Commission for Complaints about Sexual Abuse in Pastoral Relations", which the conference of the Belgian bishops (chaired by Danneels) organized on 4 November 1999. Early in 1998 it became known that a priest of the archdiocese had raped a minor in 1968. Danneels volunteered to testify in court, the first time ever that a cardinal had appeared before

4165-533: The cardinal was recalled)] nor Eyskens ["Maar geen enkel resultaat" (But no result whatsoever)] say this in so many words. They may just as well have alluded to the earlier talks between Danneels and the King. In a number of reactions to the VTM broadcast it has been claimed that Danneels counseled the King to sign the Lallemand–Herman Michielsens law. However, whatever Danneels said in conversations with

4250-407: The chance to be loved abandons its humanizing role and ultimately condemns itself". On 3 January 1999, Danneels became a member of St. Gallen Group , in which he was to play a prominent role. Danneels always objected to discrimination against homosexuals and he was always in favor of a juridical statute for stable relations between partners of the same sex. He said as much on 11 April 2003 in

4335-440: The continuing education of the priests of the Bruges diocese. On 4 November 1977, Danneels was named Bishop of Antwerp by Pope Paul VI . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 18 December from Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens ; co-consecrators were his predecessor Jules Victor Daem and his Bruges bishop De Smedt. The consecration, in a Dutch-language rite in whose development Danneels himself had been involved as

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4420-423: The death of pope John Paul II on 2 April. But on 3 April the Chinese government issued a communiqué lauding Pope John Paul's efforts to recognize the Church's errors. Pope Benedict encouraged Danneels to continue his efforts and in March 2008 Danneels again went to China, where he addressed the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and where he was allowed to encounter a number of rural Catholic communities. Danneels

4505-422: The early Methodist movement) who wrote that there is no Liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. When the Methodists in America were separated from the Church of England , John Wesley himself provided a revised version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer called The Sunday Service of

4590-411: The law was published in the Belgian official journal , the Belgian bishops, including Danneels, issued a declaration in which they distinguished what is legally acceptable and what is morally desirable, and they unambiguously rejected the law morally. Danneels has never wavered from the conviction that "a society that encourages abortion of those that are born in the margins of society or that do not have

4675-436: The liturgy were translations based on the Sarum Rite as practised in Salisbury Cathedral . The revised edition in 1552 sought to assert a more clearly Protestant liturgy after problems arose from conservative interpretation of the mass on the one hand, and a critique by Martin Bucer (Butzer) on the other. Successive revisions are based on this edition, though important alterations appeared in 1604 and 1662. The 1662 edition

4760-579: The matter to the Adriaenssens Commission. And he did not involve his own successor, archbishop Léonard." Upon the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, Danneels was listed as a possible successor (or papabile ) although with weakened credentials due to the fact that he was an archbishop of a country where abortion, euthanasia and same-sex unions had recently been legalized and where, under his watch, church attendance and pastoral vocations have dropped to historical lows. Christian liturgy The majority of Christian denominations hold church services on

4845-416: The middle sixties he felt pressurized by Rome (in particular by cardinal Giacomo Lercaro ), which was trying get a firmer grip on the liturgical journals in which he wrote. On 8 July 1969, Danneels was appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven . Initially the appointment was for two years, but Danneels was to stay until 31 January 1978, shortly after he

4930-447: The morning office of Safro. In the Maronite Eparchies of the United States, the approved breviary set is titled the Prayer of the Faithful. Different Christian traditions have employed different rites: Historic Protestant Churches have set liturgies , which are referred to as " worship services " or " divine services ". Protestant Reformation -era ministers of the Reformed tradition used set liturgies which emphasized preaching and

5015-423: The morning, and your faithfulness by night" (cf. Psalm 134:1 ). Church father Eusebius of Caesarea thus declared: "For it is surely no small sign of God's power that throughout the whole world in the churches of God at the morning rising of the sun and at the evening hours, hymns, praises, and truly divine delights are offered to God. God's delights are indeed the hymns sent up everywhere on earth in his Church at

5100-476: The relations between China and the Catholic Church. In November 1985 he invited a delegation of official Chinese bishops, who had been invited to Leuven by the Catholic University, to lunch in his residence in Mechelen. A return invitation followed, but problems caused by the coexistence of the official and the underground Catholic Church in China led to Danneels having to postpone his visit. When it finally happened, in March 2005, Danneels had to cut it short, owing to

5185-463: The royal court. Danneels' relations with the court were good, but not particularly close. He even denied having a close relationship with King Baudouin, whom he saw often and whom he greatly admired. Danneels participated in a number of synods of bishops and played a prominent role in some of them, notably in: Danneels chaired this synod, on "The Pastoral Situation in the Netherlands", together with cardinal Johannes Willebrands . Its central task

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5270-422: The same time professor of liturgy and spirituality . In 1960 he also took over Frans Neirynck 's course on the sacraments . His study of the literature on liturgy made him evolve from a Rome-educated and initially conservative liturgist into a modern one, and a well-known one, thanks to his articles in the Dictionary of the Liturgy . The claim that he was actively involved in writing Sacrosanctum Concilium

5355-429: The sections, psalms, and days has been widely retained, but more recent reforms have omitted this. Recently, Lutherans have adapted much of their revised mass to coincide with the reforms and language changes brought about by post-Vatican II changes. Protestant traditions vary in their liturgies or "orders of worship" (as they are commonly called). Other traditions in the west often called " Mainline " have benefited from

5440-428: The term " Divine Liturgy " to denote the Eucharistic service. and some Oriental Orthodox churches also use that term. The descendant churches of the Church of the East and various other Syriac Churches call their Liturgy the Holy Qurbana - Holy Offering. Anglicans variably use Holy Communion , The Lord’s Supper , the Roman Catholic term mass , or simply Holy Eucharist dependent upon churchmanship . Mass

5525-431: The times of morning and evening." The Roman Rite Catholic Mass is the service in which the Eucharist is celebrated. In Latin , the corresponding word is Missa , taken from the dismissal at the end of the liturgy - Ite, Missa est , literally "Go, it is the dismissal", translated idiomatically in the current English Roman Missal as "Go forth, the Mass is ended." The Eastern Orthodox Church ( Byzantine Rite ) uses

5610-484: The victim and his family. The transcripts revealed that the victim felt that he was not being understood and considered Danneels' manner to be inept. For Danneels, the final chapter of the affair was his appearance, on 21 December 2010, before a parliamentary committee investigating sexual abuse in hierarchical relations. He emphatically stated that there had never been a policy of covering up or denying, let alone tolerating sexual abuse, that justice had to be done and that

5695-470: The victim rejected. In the night of Monday 19 to Tuesday 20 April all Belgian bishops received an e-mail exposing Vangheluwe. This resulted in Vangheluwe's resignation on 22 April and its immediate acceptance by the Vatican on 23 April, as was revealed on the same date by Danneels' successor as archbishop, André-Mutien Léonard , at a press conference. In a press communiqué, likewise on 23 April, Vangheluwe publicly admitted his guilt and publicly apologized. In

5780-401: The victim to delay a public statement until Vangheluwe had retired. Speaking through a spokesman, Toon Osaer, Danneels explained that he had been unprepared for this meeting and that his proposal that the victim remain silent was "an improvisation". Danneels did not reveal this conversation to the Belgian bishops. At another meeting Vangheluwe, in Danneels' presence, made a private apology which

5865-401: The weeks after Vangheluwe's resignation, the "Commission for Complaints about Sexual Abuse in Pastoral Relations" (now often called the Adriaenssens Commission, after its chairman, child psychiatrist Peter Adriaenssens) received no fewer than 475 complaints about sexual abuse. On 24 June, in an operation code named Kelk ("Chalice") organized at the request of the Office of the Public Prosecutor,

5950-444: Was "Jesus Christ, Alive in His Church, Source of Hope for Europe". Danneels' speech attacking the cultural pessimism prevalent among a number of Roman prelates impressed many council fathers as well as Pope John Paul II, who allowed him to go beyond the allotted time. This was popularly known as the "Synod on the Family"; officially it was about "Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization". Danneels' intervention

6035-401: Was Standard before the Second Vatican Council , to name a few. There were eight such hours, corresponding to certain times of the day: Matins (sometimes called Vigil ), Lauds , Prime , Terce , Sext , None , Vespers , and Compline . The Second Vatican Council ordered the suppression of Prime. In monasteries, Matins was generally celebrated before dawn, or sometimes over the course of

6120-438: Was a member, he publicly denounced it in several interviews, for its procedure and, more importantly, for its overly intellectual approach of the concept of freedom, which failed to take seriously the pains caused by poverty and by political and military oppression. He was instrumental in preventing a condemnation of his friend Gustavo Gutiérrez , and he was pleased that the follow-up of Libertatis nuntius, Libertatis conscientia ,

6205-456: Was able to prepare a number of Orders. They were Eucharist, Morning and Evening Prayer, Marriage Service, Burial Service, Ordination Service and Covenant Service (1954), Holy Baptism (1955) and Almanac (1955–56). The Book of Common Worship of the CSI was published in 1963 with all the above orders of service. The orders of service consist of: Order for Morning and Evening Worship, Order of Service for

6290-454: Was appointed its General Relator (rapporteur), and in this task he was assisted by Walter Kasper , then still a theology professor. Their final report was praised by the Pope and accepted almost unanimously. But its conclusions could be, and were, interpreted in both directions, and it left many decisions up to Rome, thus putting no stop to the centralizing tendencies in the Church. Its theme

6375-466: Was brief, but his presence at the synod was notable, as it followed a personal invitation by Pope Francis . Danneels was aware of the risks of liberation theology and its political dimension. But when on 6 August 1984, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published Libertatis nuntius , its Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation" without even consulting him, though he

6460-410: Was consecrated bishop. In Leuven he became thoroughly interested in what was to become his "hobby horse", the interlocking of theology and humanism, which he was to develop throughout his life in both his academic and his pastoral writings. The latter too were numerous and important, for when he was relieved of his spiritual directorship at the Bruges seminar in the summer of 1967, he was put in charge of

6545-545: Was elected a member of the general secretariat of the bishops' synods with 124 votes, outpolling even Cardinals Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (121 votes) and Basil Hume (110 votes). Devoted to "The Twentieth Anniversary of the Conclusion of the Second Vatican Council", its discussions revolved around the question "Shall we put the brakes on Vatican II, or shall we continue or even go beyond it?" Danneels

6630-588: Was first confronted with the problem of sexual abuse in the Church in the aftermath of the Dutroux affair, when the authorities' call for victims of abuse to come forward revealed that there had also been cases of abuse in the Church. (But see also the Vangheluwe affair, below.) The first to formally organize a contact point for victims of sexual abuse within the Belgian Church was Arthur Luysterman ,

6715-478: Was first investigated by the Congregation. In the face of great pressure from the Leuven Faculty of Theology, he did not intervene on Schillebeeckx's behalf. Encouraged and aided by his predecessor, Danneels began to build what was to become a very extensive network, which included numerous Belgian politicians. This would be important for his work in the next station of his life. Danneels was promoted to

6800-467: Was subjected to an all-day interrogation by the Brussels branch of the Judicial Police . Later the search was judged to have been illegal and all documents seized were returned. Great damage to Danneels's reputation was caused by the publication in De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad on 28 August 2010 of the transcript of tape recordings, made secretly, of the two meetings Danneels had had with

6885-443: Was the earliest English-language service book of the Church of England , and the only English-language service to be finished within the lifetime of King Henry VIII. In 1549, Cranmer produced a complete English-language liturgy. Cranmer was largely responsible for the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer . The first edition was predominantly pre-Reformation in its outlook. The Communion Service, Lectionary, and collects in

6970-556: Was the eldest of six siblings. He owed his vocation to the priesthood to a priest he had as a teacher in high school, Daniel Billiet. Like a few other bright candidates for the priesthood from West Flanders, Danneels did not enter the episcopal Seminary of Bruges after he finished high school, but was sent directly to the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven , there to follow

7055-595: Was the international president of Pax Christi . Danneels was a consistent and strong supporter of bishop (later cardinal) Monsengwo 's attempts to foster democracy in Zaire , mediating between Belgium, Rome and Kinshasa. He was instrumental in Monsengwo's being awarded an honorary doctorate by the Catholic University of Leuven on 2 February 1993 and he gave the Laudatio himself. Danneels worked long and hard to thaw

7140-455: Was to overcome the divisions that were plaguing the Catholic Church in the Netherlands and the widening gap between Rome and many Dutch Catholics. Its final document was signed by all participants, but it was poorly received in the Netherlands, and the conflicts between the Dutch bishops among themselves and between some of them and their flocks continued. Its theme was "The Christian Family". In

7225-483: Was traditional and careful of what Rome desired. From the beginning of his episcopacy, he faced an acute problem of numerous priests leaving their ministry. In spite of this, he energetically defended the traditional demand of the Church that priests remain celibate. In July 1978 he was appointed a member of the Curial Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , just at the time when Edward Schillebeeckx

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