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Popes once grandly divided up the world, while abbots governed dukedoms the size of Rhode Island. Since then, temporal authority among religious leaders has mostly gone out of style. Last week a cleric who still has much civic influence arrived for a six-week visit in the U.S.: His Beatitude Paul Peter Meouchi, 68, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East...
Doctrine & Syllabus. Pio Nona's liberalism did not last long. In 1848, Roman civic leaders, furious that he would not consider war with Austria, assassinated his Prime Minister and set up a "people's republic." Pius fled to exile in Gaeta, near Naples. There he denned, on his own authority, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. When French troops restored him to his dominions in 1850, Pius IX was a cautious political conservative. Much of his suspicion of modern ideas is summed up in the notorious Syllabus of Errors of 1864-a belligerent denunciation of such...
...burgeoning bureaucracy*- crack New Zealanders, is "like boring a hole through treacle." Now the nation is considering a solution to government regimentation and pettifoggery. Last week, after a year of deliberation, New Zealand was pressing ahead with plans for a new, independent government official who will act as a civic watchdog in much the same fashion as the famed, 153-year-old Swedish institution known as the ombudsman, or grievance...
...here but the brashness is not." Much of Atlanta's stability under change comes from its business leaders, such as Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's retired chairman, and Richard Rich of Rich's, the South's largest department store, who have long made no-nonsense civic enterprise an Atlanta tradition. "This is not a playboy's town and it's not a cocktail-at-lunch town," says Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., himself the former president of the South's largest office-supply firm. "This is a businessman's town...
...Other U.S. cities and towns with cultural gleams in their eyes; Winter Park, Fla., planning a $2,000,000 theater, museum and concert hall; Oklahoma City, a combined arts and science museum; Baltimore and St. Petersburg, Fla., new concert halls as part of their civic centers; Salt Lake City, Asheville, N.C., and Ypsilanti, Mich., theaters at a total cost of $2,150,000; Laramie, Wyo., Hartford, Conn., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Odessa, Texas, Gadsden, Ala., and Tenafly, N.J., have art centers and cultural projects planned or promised...