Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the way they come into the world, the future Kings of Britain: to the thunk of artillery and cannonades of champagne corks. To billowing flags and pealing bells, to churchmen's prayers and endless, raucous choruses of Rule, Britannia! and For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! Amid clouds of euphoria that make their subjects-to-be and millions of television cousins feel that they are members of one harmonious family...
...12th century Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain by the Anglican King's men for his loyalty to Pope and church. The rite moved determinedly through history, even commemorating modern martyrs who died of religious persecution. And after this emotional service, John Paul and the other churchmen lunched, to talk of matters ecumenical and, one assumes, fraternal...
...percentage is Jewish? Muslim? Barrett believed that the answers to these and similar questions should no longer, in this age of telecommunications, jet travel and computer analysis, remain a matter of faith. Some 14 years ago, huddling with church demographers in Nairobi, Kenya, Barrett launched a project that many churchmen around the world thought would take a virtual miracle to pull off: a nation-by-nation grand survey, complete with encyclopedic tables and computer-compiled statistics, of all the world's religions, minor and major-with no soul left uncounted...
What Barrett and his demographers have discovered is sure to prove invaluable to churchmen and scholars everywhere. But it will also trigger new controversies. For example, Barrett concludes that Brazil, the world's biggest Catholic country, in fact has 11.4 million people on the Catholic rolls who are really Protestants, and 60 million who dabble in the worship of spirits...
That attitude has profoundly irritated Schmidt. "You can't make it so easy for yourselves," he told churchmen during a television dels bate. "You cannot say, when someone else builds up missiles and armaments directed against your town and other towns, 'I will hold back and God will look after...