Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials took arms against the heresy of modernism-which taught that Catholic dogma should be revised in the light of progress made by science and philosophy -and Bible scholars proved to be handy targets. Some found their writings placed on the Index; the top Catholic scholar of his day, Dominican Father Marie Joseph Lagrange, was dismissed from his teaching posts and for a time forbidden to pursue his critical investigations...
...still-incomplete Confraternity editions, both of which were designed to replace the classic but archaic Douay version. A religious bestseller (more than 1.000,000 copies) is the French Jerusalem Bible, translated by the staff of Ecole Biblique, a respected center for Biblical research run by the Dominican order in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem...
...Tensions. But life with Ghighi was no champagne cocktail. His charm for women was always electric-and friends recall that Charlene, who seemed to love him deeply, was jealous of his attractions. Ghighi also had legal problems. A public relations firm that he was associated with took on the Dominican Republic as a client in 1959, when it was ruled by Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
Died. The Very Rev. Terence Stephen McDermott. 76. only American ever to head Roman Catholicism's Dominican Order of Friars Preachers, an Iowa-born priest who served for an unprecedented 25 years (from 1930 to 1955) as provincial of the Dominicans' St. Joseph Province, which covers the Eastern U.S., was named in 1954 to a nine-month interim term as the order's vicar-general in Rome; in Manhattan...
Castro once had several pipelines of subversion around the hemisphere. Pan American flew daily flights between Miami and Havana; Delta flew from Haiti and the Dominican Republic; K.L.M. went in from Curasao, a Dutch self-governing territory off the coast of Venezuela. But now the flights have ended, leaving only the twice-weekly Cubana flight to Mexico-and Castro makes the most of it. The 96-seat Britannia is usually half full, an estimated 5,000 people flew back and forth last year. Of those, says CIA Director John A. McCone, about 1,500 have received indoctrination and guerrilla warfare...