Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S discussion of clerical celibacy [Feb. 18] has done a great service by bringing into the open a festering sore in the structure of the church. Celibacy as a sine qua non for the priesthood of the Latin Rite is a product neither of the demands of faith nor of the conclusions of sound theology. The stress on celibacy in Western Catholicism at times borders on the irrational. The Oriental Church has realized the error of identifying a vocation to the priesthood with a vocation to the celibate life...
Erasmus, who studied there from 1517 to 1521, would be hard put to understand all the pulling and hauling that is going on these days at his alma mater, the University of Louvain. In his day, the school's common language was Latin. Now the university is split into French-speaking and Flemish-speaking halves, and the division is so bitter that the two halves are not talk ing to each other...
...January 1, 1966, the Peace Corps comprised more than 12,000 Volunteers. The total includes more than 10,000 working in 46 nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America and 2,000 training for service overseas...
...largest concentration of Volunteers is in Latin America -- nearly...
...many of you are willing to spend 10 years in Africa or Latin America or Asia working for the U.S. and working for freedom? How many of you (who) are going to be doctors are willing to spend your days in Ghana?. . . On your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, I think, will depend the answer whether we as a free society can compete...