Word: german
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...learned German theologian in his youth, Benedict was instrumental in one of the great reforms of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council—the reform movement that decisively brought the Church into the modern age. During this council, Benedict was a key progressive voice arguing in favor of reuniting the clergy with the laypeople and emphasizing the Vatican’s role in working with the faithful rather than its authority over them. He has remained consistent in this belief and others, though the ideological label applied to him has changed drastically over the years. His recent remark...
...incredible. It’s really interesting to see how Faust’s stripped-down art-rock and Conrad’s avant-classically-influenced drone intersect, especially since Conrad was involved with other rock experimenters like John Cale (of The Velvet Underground) back home. Other stuff: German industrial-noisers Einstuerzende Neubaten’s collaboration with randy no-wave poet Lydia Lunch, Joe Jones’ Fluxus-inspired machine music, Bastard Noise’s divine Japanese tour...
...broadcasts. In the middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert, H.V., red in the face, excused himself and stalked out. Ironically, when the 1938 Munich crisis heated up, CBS called H.V. to come back and broadcast the crisis because only he understood German. Ruth Brine Kaltenborn Palm Beach, Fla. Draped by Miyake...
...German Acosta, 31, was sleeping at home with his father and four brothers when the avalanche struck, blanketing all five with mud. Acosta can remember hearing boulders knock down walls and doors of their home. The family began racing up the stairs from the second floor of their dwelling toward the roof. As they climbed, a wall collapsed, trapping the father. Eventually Acosta and his brothers dragged the older man to safety, but within hours he was dying, vomiting blood...
...conservative mind-set is expressed by Msgr. Wilhelm Schätzler, secretary general of the West German bishops' conference: "Following the euphoria of the council, certain negative developments have crept in, and they must be soberly analyzed and, if necessary, corrected by the synod." Conservative U.S. lay Catholics have lobbied for synod action on empty seminaries, dissident priests and nuns, and what they consider to be inadequate parish education. But the most noteworthy reforms enacted by Vatican II are no longer at issue...