Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholic bishop's residence in Des Moines, two-member teams of parishioners, fortified by hot tea and sandwiches served by nuns, prayed day and night that Pope John Paul II's visit to the U.S. next week will be a success. In Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, aspirants auditioned one by one for coveted roles: to be lay readers at the Mass that will be celebrated by the Pontiff on the Washington Mall...
...English Puritans who settled Massachusetts and established their capital seat at Boston were not known for their solicitude towards the Bishop of Rome. Themselves heirs of the English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind...
...extended to Pope John Paul II to speak on the Dudleian Foundation would have, if accepted, provided a remarkable bit of counterpoint to Mr. Justice Dudley's theme. It would not, however, have been the first time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs to Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the then-newly established Catholic University, who came at the invitation of Harvard President Charles William Eliot on October 23, 1890 to deliver the Dudleian Lecture on Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard...
When they last sat down with British diplomats in Geneva three years ago, the archenemies in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's civil war could not even agree on an agenda. The talks broke off after three stormy weeks. Thus the British officials who had persuaded Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa and his guerrilla foes from the Patriotic Front to attend a "constitutional conference" in London last week were cheered when the two sides agreed on an outline for the discussions. It had been adopted, an erudite Foreign Office spokesman gleefully announced, nemine contradicente (Latin for without any objection), on only...
...alternative that would guarantee the whites one-third membership in a toothless Senate and an unspecified number of seats in the lower house-but not enough to block legislation or constitutional amendments. Displeased by both plans, Muzorewa threatened to walk out. But sources in his delegation said that the bishop's tantrum was no more than a threat aimed at holding together his divided delegation...