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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent the spread of error and heresy is by the use of the imprimatur. According to canon law, any book by a Catholic layman or cleric dealing with faith or morals must be cleared by a diocesan censor and approved for publication by a bishop, normally shown by the Latin word imprimatur - meaning "Let it be printed." In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned...
Haider today is a combination of grit and polish. He hates cold weather from his tours in Canada, speaks acceptable Spanish from his connections with Latin America. He enjoys opera, frequently attends performances in New York with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, another buff. On business trips, he likes to get up a Cajun card game known as Bouree, a variety of pitch in which pots get increasingly more costly. He seldom loses at Bouree, but he can afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses...
Undertones of Irony. While student agitation is an accepted fact of academic life in much of Asia and Latin...
Spellman throughout his life had a love for Catholicism's old Latin liturgy. The requiem that honored his death was as up-to-date as the church allowed. The funeral Mass - concelebrated by nine cardinals, two archbishops, seven bishops and one priest*- was conducted entirely in English, in accordance with recent reforms of the postconciliar church. The predominant liturgical color of the service was penitential purple rather than funeral black -reflecting the tone, attuned more toward hope than sadness or mourning, of modern Catholic funerals. Notably absent from the service was the beautiful but chilling sequence Dies...
...says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered cultivated if he had not gone out to engage the art, philosophy and manners of the Latin countries." Housebound in their in creasingly tight little island, the English, with a curtailed foreign-travel allowance, could afford perhaps the book, but hardly the travel...