Word: joining
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...ecumenically significant ritual arose for distinctly unecumenical reasons. In the late 1970s some conservative members of the Episcopal Church (the U.S. branch of Anglicanism) broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived...
With the increase in pointedly sexual references, the play attempts to treat its issues with a greater degree of seriousness. Eddie's inability to maintain his religious faith is countered by Becky's decision to join the convent, a move that climaxes the sexual tensior that has been building all along. Ultimately, however, the play chooses not to become an issues-oriented forum, but as the upbeat "Best of Friends" duct suggests, a comic arena largely unconscious of conflict...
...with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and noting the poignantly graceful passage of sari- clad Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi." Amfitheatrof was covering Mikhail Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain last December when Ustinov's death caused Gorbachev to rush back to Moscow. Amfitheatrof also hurried back, canceling plans to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas in Rome...
...Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely beaten, and bound, gagged, and stuffed into white plastic bags. Said Gavin: "We call on responsible authorities in the government of the Republic of Mexico to join us in intensifying the search for and the apprehension of these detestable criminal elements...
...that the council has been formed, its leaders and the National Committee are making the appropriate public noises about cooperating. "We will be very supportive," says Gephardt; indeed, according to Robb, the council has + reserved an ex officio seat for Kirk should he care to join. Kirk for his part promises to put Gephardt and Babbitt on a policy council that he intends to form within the National Committee. Even so, the Democrats would be left with two bodies seeking to set policy and arguing about how to unify the party. In other words, they are acting like Democrats...