Word: concordat
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Osservatore called on police to crack down, and within 48 hours Rome police did, but with tact befitting a nation anxious to remain the world's No. 1 tourist attraction. A "strict and precise" directive to police noted that under Article One of the Concordat between Italy and the Vatican state, "police are obliged to prevent and repress any abuse against morality. Those found in succinct clothing will be gently invited to leave and to dress themselves with greater decorum. In cases of resistance, they will be identified, reported to their respective embassies and prosecuted...
...lowest instincts. It is said that the 'artistic' director of this show distributed to his dancing girls three postage stamps apiece and told them to get dressed in them . . . Whoever planned this obscene carnival for Rome was evidently unaware of the provisions of the Vatican-Italian concordat, which calls for 'respect of the sacred character of Rome.' " Undeterred, the Folies went on with its plans to open in Rome's Sistine Theater, not to be confused with the Sistine Chapel...
...called for the election of a constituent assembly with the sole task of divorcing the church from the state. Before the ugly church-burnings. Perón would probably have won his point; now he wants to avoid a test of strength. His solution apparently is to seek a concordat, i.e., a diplomatic agreement with the Vatican regulating church-state relations. Even negotiating for a concordat might be pretext enough to postpone the election, which was to have taken place by November...
...burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...
...Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and of the World Presbyterian Alliance, contradicted the Vice President. "I am compelled sorrowfully to say that the exact opposite is true," he told delegates to the North American Area Council of the Alliance. "Two decades ago the Roman Catholic Church made concordats with the totalitarian rulers of Italy and Germany . . . Today the Roman Catholic Church has a concordat with . . . Francisco Franco, the totalitarian ruler of Spain . . . Those Latin countries where the Roman Catholic Church has been the predominant religious influence have been breeding grounds for Communism...