Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left-wing Roman Catholics - including six priests and two nuns - "captured" the cathedral in Santiago, Chile. Barricading the doors against all outsiders for 15 hours, they celebrated an informal liturgy, then issued a manifesto denouncing Pope Paul's scheduled visit this week to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia. "Christ does not need masses of people singing in the streets, or acclaiming his vicarage, or thousands of wax candles," said the declaration. "The Christ of the poor needs courageous action aimed at changing the conditions of the Latin American people." The Santiago rebels charged that the Pope...
...church in Washington, D.C., and seized all its E-meters on the grounds that Scientology falsely promised the cure of "neuroses, psychoses, schizophrenia and all psychosomatic illnesses." Last week the British Home Office announced that 800 Scientologists planning to arrive in England this week for their international congress will not be allowed to enter the country...
...have been under constant pressure from younger laymen and many parents and priests to allow the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in English. This year, in an effort to renew its links with Hellenic tradition, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America decided to hold its biennial congress of clergy and laity for the first time in Greece. The result was enough to transform even the most patriotic Hellenophile into a confirmed Hellenophobe...
Theological Boycott. Matters quickly deteriorated after that. When an American priest publicly complained about the refusal of the University of Athens to recognize degrees from Holy Cross Orthodox Theological School in Brookline, Mass., ten theologians from the university walked out of the assembly and boycotted the rest of the congress. After Iakovos went out of his way to praise Greece's past democratic political tradition, the country's military regime ordered newspapers to curtail their coverage of the congress. George Papadopoulos, the strongman of the ruling junta, pointedly failed to show up at the climactic banquet, pleading...
...congress, even Archbishop Iakovos had to admit that the experiment had been a failure. "We offered cooperation, but there was no response," he said. "We found that what separates America and Greece is not just the ocean. It is the mentality." The return to the homeland did not help the cause of cultural Hellenization in American Orthodoxy. One resolution, approved overwhelmingly by the congress, called for more English in the church's worship...