Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional vocabulary of debate about capital punishment is sprinkled with such terms as "sanctity of life" and "retribution," and "moral law" and "natural right," but they have largely disappeared from the debate during the past decade or so. Mainly among clergymen is the capital-punishment issue argued on moral-religious grounds. The Roman Catholic Church defends society's right to take a criminal's life as an act of collective self-defense, and a spokesman of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod says that "the Bible seems to permit the possibility of capital punishment." Several of the other religious...
...Washington-New York railroad transportation expenses of $2,536 in one eight-month period, which meant that Powell-who bought round-trip tickets at the clergymen's half-price of $11-would have had to make at least 200 round trips in the year...
France had braced itself for 14 days with Nikita Khrushchev. French Communists plastered the Paris Red Belt with pamphlets calling upon the faithful to give Nikita "an unforgettable welcome worthy of the traditions of the Parisian working class." France's Catholic bishops forbade clergymen to greet Khrushchev in their churches, urged laymen to recite the prayer Pro Pace (For Peace) in his presence. De Gaulle prepared himself by watching movies of Khrushchev's U.S. tour and huddling with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who had flown over to give the general a few British attitudes...
...decided on the priesthood and went to study in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1930. Only four years later he was one of three candidates for an archbishopric submitted by Pope Pius XI to King Alexander of Yugoslavia. The King passed over the two other distinguished clergymen to make Stepinac, 36, the youngest archbishop in the church. Three years later, he was Archbishop of Zagreb, spiritual leader of the predominantly Catholic Croats...
...Constitutions. A synod is not like a council-its articles are not even discussed, much less debated. The 770 articles presented to 1,200-odd clergymen in six days of sessions were the result of 165 committee meetings. Working under the Pope's close supervision during the past year, the committee examined thousands of suggestions from parish priests, high church officials and leading laymen. The articles themselves will not be published for weeks, but enough is known about them to form a broad picture of Rome's new diocesan constitutions, which Roman Catholic bishops everywhere are urged...