Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bishops and regularized the status of a fourth to give hard-line Czechoslovakia its fullest hierarchy since the Communists launched a postwar effort to liquidate Catholicism. Coming only one week after the Holy See established diplomatic ties with Poland, the latest moves point to a growing accommodation between the church and the officially atheistic regimes of the Soviet bloc...
...most dramatic church reforms have occurred in Lithuania. The Kremlin has permitted a nearly complete hierarchy, even though the Vatican refuses to recognize the U.S.S.R.'s 1940 annexation of Lithuania. In 1988 the regime restored the two top churchmen, who between them spent 53 years in internal exile. In March the Pope named three new bishops (the first since World War II) and two apostolic administrators, so that five of the six dioceses have resident leaders...
Lithuania's Catholics have also regained church buildings, established their own bimonthly magazine and, as of three weeks ago, are producing a TV show that is seen each Sunday. The man responsible for the new religious freedoms, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Italy in November and is almost certain to pay a historic visit to the Polish Pontiff. It would be the first meeting ever between a Pope and a Soviet leader...
...some churches, you're ignored. They won't sit beside you, especially at a church that is more white. At black churches, they raise eyebrows, but they don't do anything," says Priscilla. "We go to the malls, and people look at us, and some give us a look of approval or disapproval, but it doesn't stop us from holding hands. Sometimes people see us, and they think, 'Oh, nice. He can afford a housekeeper.' When Robert puts his arm around my waist, they're in shock. 'He's having an affair with his housekeeper...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...