Word: catholicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Three theological cheers for Bishop James P. Shannon [June 6]. What a joy to know there is one American Catholic bishop more Christian than churchy, more humane than inquisitorial, more open than parochial, more honest than face-saving. JAMES HESSEL HAYDEN San Francisco
Only eight major nations in the world, all Catholic, do not allow divorce. They are Italy, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay. Of the eight, the one closest to ending its prohibition is the home of the church it self. Italy's Chamber of Deputies last week...
Irishmen sometimes refer to the Atlantic Ocean as a lake of tears. Because so many of them have crossed it to the U.S., the Irish are seldom far from the thoughts of Americans. This is particularly true right now. For months, something not unlike civil war has been simmering in...
Irish religion is also a stubborn holdover. Post-Reformation England wasted several hundred years trying to bring her offshore island into ideological line, in the process hammering Catholicism deeper and deeper into the Irish system. From the victim's point of view, a cosmopolitan religion was an excellent way of trying to get back into the stream of history. Time and again the Irish signaled other Catholic countries for help. The French or the Spanish would send a few ships-like Khrushchev sending his missiles halfway to Cuba-and another rising would fail, until a mood of fatalism...
Much of this has to do with the image of sex and death, which presents hilarity on the one side and melancholia on the other. The confusion has been blamed squarely on the Catholic Church, but a country usually gets the religion that suits it. The Irish attitude to sex...