Word: authoritarianism
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...Western history are stained with papal interventions. Your diagnosis of the encyclical [Aug. 21] was brilliantly acute and accurate-a series of ambivalences dominated by the word "but." But in each ambivalence, the final and decisive alternative is negative, cautious, conservative, in the literal sense reactionary, and above all authoritarian...
...soon as he was rid of the King, Cromwell set up an even more harshly authoritarian regime, which was duly overthrown in the royal Restoration of 1660 when Charles II ascended the throne. Miss Wedgewood, who has lucidly portrayed the era in two previous books, The King's War and The King's Peace, avoids taking sides in this final volume on Charles. But, as she suggests, many another despot in succeeding wars and revolutions was to cite Cromwell's "blow for liberty" as a precedent for murder. Few have dared to claim God's sanction...
...development and vociferous presence of something that has been rather grandly called "the renewal elite." It includes bishops, priests, seminarians and sisters, but its driving force is a young, college-trained laity that accepts the church's essential mysteries and matters of faith while questioning the authoritarian way moral theologians reduce these dogmas to terms of practical behavior. As one California Jesuit puts it, "The catechism answers don't satisfy any more -thank...
From time to time the Generalissimo has shown interest in the establishment of some variety of authoritarian, presidential regime. He is a professed admirer of the Gaullist state and has moved regularly to better his relations with France. Clearly he appreciates the mystique and the personal power that the French general-president enjoys. Shortly after the hunting accident, Franco created the position of Vice Premier and filled it with his long time friend and fellow general, Augustin Munoz Grandes. A veteran of Madrid politics, Munoz Grandes is popular in the country but a scant four years younger than Franco...
Tisserant, 80, recalled a December 1939 meeting with Pius in the Pope's study at which he futilely urged Pius to issue an encyclical on the duty of Roman Catholics to resist the unjust orders of an authoritarian state; Jews were not to be specifically mentioned. Six months after the meeting, Tisserant wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Paris, then Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, repeating his suggestion. He did not criticize the Pope, Tisserant insisted last week, giving copies of the letter to the press. His target was the Roman Curia, which, Tisserant charged, had a tacit agreement with...