Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puerto Rican bishops had gone too far. Legally there was no doubt that the bishops were within their rights. The Vatican generally seemed to support the bishops, recalling that Pope Pius XII had declared it a sin to vote for the Communists in Italy's 1948 election (an edict that the Italian clergy was never able to enforce). Nevertheless there was room for argument and interpretation...
Yale-in-China suffered a similar fate. A Communist edict closed the school at Changsha, and the trustees of the Yale-in-China Association cast about for a new way to improve East Asian education. In 1953, they decided to support New Asia College, a school set up in Hong Kong by refugee scholars. The Western-style approach to learning has been continued. Its full-time staff of 42 members teaches standard subjects, and in currently planning to create a Faculty of Science. In cooperation with other Hong Kong schools, New Asia College is also attempting to strengthen its Chinese...
...concern was not confined to bigots. The bishops' ban raised anew the legitimate questions of Protestants (and some Catholics) who had heard Catholic Candidate Jack Kennedy pledge repeatedly that his church had no power to influence a Catholic's political decisions. As news of the first edict spread, Midwestern newspapers were peppered with questioning protests. In Denver widely respected Methodist Bishop Glenn R. Phillips announced that "on Nov. 8 I shall not mark my ballot for a Roman Catholic candidate for the presidency," added later that the Puerto Rican bishops' letter had doubly confirmed his stand...
...edict which a Nixon press aide violated last week by issuing a release which quoted an Israeli newspaper's call for U.S. Jews to vote for Nixon because he would do so much for Israel. Last week three former leaders of Jewish organizations objected to "this shocking appeal for votes from Americans of Jewish faith...
...years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national synods, setting up a divinity school in Lausanne, Switzerland to supply pastors to the underground churches. Finally, two years before the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was forced to sign an edict of tolerance for Protestantism. The revolution-which in turn bitterly persecuted the Catholics-eventually turned that tolerance into equality...