Word: catholicization
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One result is an impressive level of competence. The American Bar Association (A.B.A.) has rated half of Reagan's first-term nominees to the district court exceptionally well qualified or well qualified, a level matched in the previous four presidencies only by the Carter Administration. At the appellate level he...
For almost a half-century, Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward were inseparably joined by the name of their Roman Catholic publishing house, Sheed & Ward. But to their son they were powerfully eccentric individuals who happened to be linked by marriage. Frank was first and last "the man at the piano...
Frank, who had done brilliantly at Sydney Law School, argued his case like a barrister, presenting "legal briefs" for God. Maisie "knew what she knew" and made her converts with her enthusiasm for everything Catholic, from the Latin Mass--she was, says her son, a "liturgical junkie"--to the jokes...
...America, the Rev. Fulton Sheen, for whom Wilfrid worked briefly and unenthusiastically after finishing his education at Oxford. Billing his proselytizing parents as "kings of the Catholic world from John o' Groats to Borneo," Sheed asserts they stirred up the forces that "would change the face of American Catholicism." But he never makes quite clear how; perhaps it was by sheer exuberance. In any case, the winds of change from Vatican II blew right past them, dislodging their son and most Catholics of his generation from the absolute haven the church had provided for Frank and Maisie...
Infact, Marcos first floated the possibility of early presidential elections at a K.B.L. meeting last August. At the time, the Philippine economy, now described by Filipino economic experts as a "basket case," was already in a severe tailspin. Foreign debt had reached $26 billion, gross national product was shrinking at...