Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...always maintained by the marked signs of development discernible in their church. Although the Roman Catholics have always had the reputation of being conservative and formalistic, he desired to point out that they have not been unprogressive. He instanced the evolution of the modern Roman Mass out of the Coptic Mass, marked by the conversion of the solid wall of masonry which originally separated the celebrants from the congregation, into a light screen, together with the substitution of the idea of spiritual sacrifice for the actual slaughter of beasts. Furthermore, President Eliot said, the Catholic Church was not estranged from...