Word: absolutistic
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When Pope Paul VI recently invited Orthodoxy to join with Rome in settling their doctrinal disputes, Archbishop Chrysostomos of Athens and All Greece denounced Roman Catholicism as "centralist and absolutist." When representatives of other Orthodox churches gathered in Rhodes to take up the question of sending observers to the council, the Greek prelates boycotted the meeting...
...Patriarch of Constantinople and first among equals of the Orthodox prelates, invited the other Eastern churches to meet at Rhodes on Sept. 19 to reconsider the question of Vatican observers. But last week Archbishop Chrysostomos of Greece flatly rejected Paul's appeal, calling the Roman church "centralist and absolutist." Were the decision left up to him alone, Athenagoras might be quite willing to send a delegate. Yet for the sake of Orthodox unity, he will not send an observer unless all other Eastern churches...
Speaking at the University of Utah Law School,, Griswold said the Court verdict implied "absolutist notions" not expressed in the Constitution. He specifically attacked Justice Hugo L. Black, who wrote the majority opinion...
...forces that Pope John has unleashed. The importance of the council that he called is already clear. By revealing in Catholicism the deep-seated presence of a new spirit crying out for change and rejuvenation, it shattered the Protestant view of the Catholic Church as a monolithic and absolutist system. It also marked the tacit recognition by the Catholic Church, for the first time, that those who left it in the past may have had good cause. "Even the most agnostic and atheistic people were cheered when they saw those thoughtful people saying those thoughtful things," says one Harvard scientist...
...maybe five-of them are pictures of which I am not ashamed," Dobell was nonetheless astounded at his new rating in the art market. His first reaction: "People must have more money than sense." As abruptly as he had jettisoned them three years ago, Monaco's absolutist Prince Rainier III, 38, restored to his subjects their 51-year-old constitution and frump Parliament. The de-putsch decree -designed to juice up Rainier's popular support and democratic image-was proclaimed on the eve of a showdown with Monaco's protecting power, France, over the principality...