Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exhortation v. Inertia. Last week, concluding a series of nine articles on the role of the laity in the church, the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal published a notable analysis of current relations between U.S. laymen and their priests, by Harvard-educated Daniel Callahan, 32, an associate editor of the magazine and co-editor of a scholarly collection of Protestant-Catholic ecumenical studies, Christianity Divided...
...does not have the means, juridical or theological, to cope." Popes and contemporary theologians alike have exhorted the layman to become more active in the service of the Church; the new breed of well-educated, spiritually alert layman is eager to do so. Yet, thanks to centuries of lay inertia and clerical imperialism, the "Church's organizational and institutional life has been the sole responsibility of the clergy; from the teaching office of the Church down to the most remote parish everything of importance has been in the hands of the clergy." Callahan points out that Pope John XXIII...
...Disarmament-a meeting of 16 top-level officials around the rocking chair about whether to modify U.S. proposals for an H-test ban (see THE WORLD). Then the President rushed off to receive a visitor about whom he was openly curious: Laos Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, the man whose inertia in the face of the Communists has been the despair of U.S. policy planning for two years. The President found the placid Prince looking far younger than his 60 years, and, if no minds were changed on either side, the U.S. did announce that it will remove its last troops...
Studying the Rout. Under a long stretch of rule by G.O.P. machine politicos from 1884 on. Philadelphia became nationally notorious as an example of municipal inertia and political corruption...
...Khrushchev Code, a glittering prospectus for Communism's future by which Nikita hoped to add Khrushchevism to Marxism-Leninism. Yet his paper utopia seemed impossibly remote to most Russians. As a thundering anticlimax, Khrushchev in March unveiled his new blueprint for agriculture, leaving no doubt that the inertia and inefficiency of Russia's farm system will not be overcome in Khrushchev's lifetime, if ever...