Word: catholicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With just a glint of annoyance behind his thick spectacles, Author Robert Reisner emerged from the ladies' room of a Greenwich Village pub to confront nine girls and a Roman Catholic priest. "They've painted it!" he said. "Let's try the other John."
Kansas City's Bishop Charles H. Helmsing last month accused the lay-edited National Catholic Reporter of turning itself into "a platform for the airing of heretical views" (TIME, Oct. 18). In an editorial for the current issue written by Founding Editor Robert Hoyt, the N.C.R. refuses to backtrack...
Helmsing had urged the paper to drop the word Catholic from its title; the editorial pointed out that the N.C.R. had been conceived as a journal that was within the church but not an official part of it. "We intend to go on being a Catholic paper," wrote Hoyt, "concerned...
Nor do many others. Since Helmsing's blast, 66 journalists from other U.S. Catholic publications have signed a statement of intellectual support for the N.C.R. Though 1,090 subscriptions have been canceled, the paper has gained 3,849 new subscribers.
The Yorubas in the West are largely Protestant and Catholic, and number about 9 million. The religious mixture of the Ibos in the East is about the same, but there are 12 million of them. Another five or six million Nigerians comprise a myriad of smaller tribes.