Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter from Merton accepting the citation, read by the Rt. Rev. George Casey, did not have the hopeful tone of Melman's talk. Merton, writing from a Trappist monastery in Jerusalem, said that because of his retreat from society he was not entitled to the citation. He accepted, however, because he said, at the exceptional...
...with Growth Stocks. British socialism is more Methodist than Marxist. Its leaders have always had fervent faith that in freedom and social justice Englishmen can build the New Jerusalem of William Blake's vision. It was Britain's hunger for a better-ordered world that swept a Labor government to power in 1945. In the wilderness since 1951, Labor has fought ceaselessly to shape the coherent contemporary philosophy that might earn its passage back to power. It did not succeed because its leaders always came up with dreary, dogmatic formulas that were remote from the everyday lives...
...their annual conference at Blackpool this week, were begging party officials "to get them inspired." There was no doubt about the Labor delegates' mood as they bellowed The Red Flag ("Come dungeon dark or gallows grim/ This song shall be our parting hymn") and hit the road to Jerusalem. The wind of change from Scarborough was infectious. "Me vote Tory?" exclaimed one Soho pub pundit. "That would be like Noah picketing the flood...
...some notable ecumenical decisions. During a four-hour Divine Liturgy celebrated at Rhodes's Annunciation Cathedral last week, 23 metropolitans and bishops signed an agreement that one of them called "the greatest spiritual fact of our century." Ten Orthodox churches -including the ancient patriarchates of Moscow, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria-agreed to begin a "dialogue" with Rome on the subject of Christian unity, provided that the Pope will speak with them "on equal terms." Athenagoras will supervise a new secretariat that will arrange for any formal doctrinal discussions with Rome, although no meetings are likely before the Vatican...
...Catholic missionaries are collaborating with Protestant ministers in translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese. In Wales the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff has agreed to cooperate with the Protestant and Anglican churches in sponsoring a new translation into Welsh. Many French Protestant churches use the excellent "Jerusalem Bible," translated by Dominican Fathers Roland de Vaux, Pierre Benoit and other Catholic scholars of Jordan's Ecole Biblique...