Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notre Dame Cathedral on Easter morning, just as Archbishop Maurice Feltin was chanting the Credo, Michel Mourre, a 22-year-old former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...
...more than a year the Communist government has been hacking away at the Roman Catholic Church in predominantly (75%) Catholic Czechoslovakia. Last week ten members of the Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan and other orders were sentenced-on Spy Wednesday*- on the usual Red charges of espionage and conspiracy. Their sentences ranged from two years to life in prison...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...
...smoke in the Caribbean in the last two years? Was it comic-opera intrigue and filibustering? Or blood-serious plotting for revolution and war? Last week, in an18,000-word report, the fact-finding committee set up by the Organization of American States gave its answer: it accused the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Guatemala of conspiring against each other and their neighbors, of gambling recklessly with peace in the Caribbean...
...Treaty is similar to the North Atlantic pact; it unites the American nations on a one-for-all basis, and provides for the use of political and economic sanctions -or joint use of hemisphere armed forces. Aiding & Fomenting. Upholding charges (TIME, Jan. 16) of the Haitian government that the Dominican Republic had helped organize a plot to overthrow the regime of President Estime last December, the committee thundered: "The Dominican Republic has been guilty of tolerating, instigating, aiding and fomenting subversive movements against other governments." But so had Cuba and Guatemala. Both governments at one time had harbored armed groups...