Word: flock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aspiration is a means of resolving the differences between the two factions in a way that would favor social progress while circumventing the old extremes of reaction and revolu tion. As spiritual mentor of both sides, the church could play a major role in achieving a reconciliation within its flock. But the truth is that the Latin American Catholic church has almost always been identified with the privileged powers, from the days when its priests went ashore with the conquistadors. As a result, there is widespread doubt that it can ever attain the status of a reunifying social force...
Hippiedom may be as dead as the Hupmobile, but you'd never know it from the movies. Hollywood has scheduled for release a flock of new films that mock, parody, praise or exploit the life of the flower children...
...that grim year, Republicans had little to cheer about. An exception was the gubernatorial election in Washington State, where Civil Engineer Daniel Jackson Evans, still in his 30s, bucked the Johnson tide and pulled off a long-shot upset over a two-term Democratic incumbent. Two years later, a flock of Republicans duplicated Dan Evans' blueprint. On Capitol Hill, where they added 47 Congressmen and three Senators, and in the statehouses, where they picked up eight governorships, 1966 was a G.O.P. year...
...favor of the concept of collegiality, approved by Vatican II, under which bishops and cardinals can more fully share power with the Pope. Paul also expressed the hope that "Christians who are not yet in full communion of the one only Church will one day be reunited in one flock with one shepherd only"-a statement that was no comfort to the ecumenical movement...
...Church's earlier creeds. To some Catholic leaders, it was comforting. "In these troubled times," said New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke, "it is helpful to have reassurance of faith. The Holy Father gave us just that." But many liberal members of the Pope's flock were dismayed by the new document's archaic theology and terminology, which they felt would do little to make Christianity more relevant to modern man. Commented the Dutch Catholic newspaper De Tijd: "He wanted to break bread, but his words are like stones in our stomachs...