Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 began full debate on a bill that would allow civil divorce for one of seven reasons. Parliamentary observers predict that the bill will pass, probably before the end of the year...
Diane and I would not want to be thought of as leaving the church simoly because it is declining at an accelerating rate, or on a petty, personal ground-Bishop Myers' changing his mind about officiating (after telling us to invite the clergy who would assist him), when a fine priest, and a dear friend, was perfectly happy to marry us, acting under Bishop Myers' written judgment as to my canonical marriageability. We had sound reasons for leaving the church, but they are not the two you noted; nor would we want others to leave on such grounds...
...students in abandoned buildings, restoring a sense of personal involvement that is lost in the large university campuses. Early in his campaign, blithely exaggerating to dramatize his point, Mailer proclaimed: "We'll have compulsory free love in those neighborhoods that vote for it, and compulsory attendance at church on Sunday in those that vote for that...
...Eugene Carson Blake, LL.D., general secretary, World Council of Churches. Few men have sought with such vigor to bring to fruition the one visible universal church...
...best, this approach is explicit and visual. A bishop's red robes billow out on crinoline hoops, a cartoon of gluttony, indicating that the church would feed on men's lives to fatten its authority. The foot soldier who delivers the tenderly piteous speech that includes "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle" is a Negro, suggesting that the king rules by exploitive oppression. When the list of the French dead is read, each dead man rises with a blood-splotched white mask to stand at the footlights in a solid phalanx...