Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were 4,000,-ooo of them in a population of 16 million. For nearly 40 years the two faiths were embroiled in bloody conflict, symbolized by the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic Church and the crown had made headway in whittling down Protestant liberty, and in 1685 the Edict was revoked. Within a few weeks 2,000 churches were razed...
Although Archbishop Ritter sternly warned that no Catholic student under any circumstances is exempt from the provisions of his pastoral letter, Catholics are bound to this edict only as "a matter of conscience," in deference to the spiritual authority of the archbishopric. Moreover, some Catholic clergymen are not convinced that attendance at one of the 258 Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. is an automatic guarantee that a Catholic student's faith will be strengthened...
...Vatican put Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ on the Index of forbidden books. In that novel, due for fall publication in the U.S., Judas emerges as a hero since he helps Christ to fulfill his mission of redeeming mankind. At the time of the Vatican edict, Kazantzakis fired off a telegram to the Committee of the Index containing a sentence from Tertullian: "Ad tuum, Domine, tribunal, appello" ("At your tribunal, Lord, I make my appeal...
Wedding Bells. In Springfield, Mo., Anna L. Hindman, suing for divorce, charged that her TV-engineer husband wired their bed with an electric "shocking machine" to enforce his edict that four hours of sleep a night is enough...
...threat to their profits. In 1951 the Association of Textile Wholesalers and Retailers pressured small firms to prevent them from subcontracting to make goods for Neckermann. He sued for damages, and in postwar Germany's liberal economic climate won his case and forced the association to rescind its edict. Moving out of his barracks into an eleven-story Frankfurt building, Neckermann fattened his catalogue, added furniture, came out with a "Neckermann Radio-Super" that had the same features as competitors' models but sold for $45, v. $75. The radio started Neckermann's real troubles-and his real...