Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic...
...with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese. In Wales the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff has agreed to cooperate with the Protestant and Anglican churches in sponsoring a new translation into Welsh. Many French Protestant churches use the excellent "Jerusalem Bible," translated by Dominican Fathers Roland de Vaux, Pierre Benoit and other Catholic scholars of Jordan's Ecole Biblique...
...Made the World? The church, as everyone knows, and as the count should have expected, remained implacable. Instead of forgiveness, it created the Dominican Order, and set in motion the Inquisition just to cope with heretics. Under the horrifying impact of burning and torturing that ensued, even so uncomplicated and generous a Catholic as De Montbrun (parted from his love), like thousands of others, refuses to accept the sacraments and is burned as a despised heretic...
Some reports said they came by sea. By other accounts, they forded the Massacre River from the Dominican Republic. One way or the other, in the hot, flat northeast corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...Santo Domingo, Cellist Pablo Casals, 86-whose Ministry of State is music-resumed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic, conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a festival concert before an overflow crowd in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Under the Trujillo dictatorship, said Casals, such a visit would have been impossible, but "I am proud to come to this country that has obtained its liberty." Leading a tumultuous final ovation were Dominican President Juan Bosch, 53, and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 65, who arranged the appearance as a "spiritual gift" to the Dominican...