Word: catholicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It began when Ceylon, apparently emboldened by last month's decision of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cede 350 sq. mi. of the worthless Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their...
Churchly speculation on who would succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York mostly centered on familiar names. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit's Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of...
*Who lately have acquired another folk hero: in Brazil, priests have offered prayers for the soul of "our departed brother," Che Guevara, who was never a practicing Catholic.
A voodoo ceremony--most Haitians are Catholic, but voodoo practice is widespread--shows another form of the people's life-affirmation. The sacrifice of animals and the drinking of hot blood are brutal aspects of voodoo, but in essence the ceremony is a celebration. The villages gather together around the...
The boy (Alain Cohen) is the son of a Jewish couple living in the occupied France of World War II, when being inconspicuous was the best hope for avoiding the concentration camp. But it is hard for a high-spirited nine-year-old not to be noticed. For the sake...