Word: officialdom
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...Curran could teach in an "area of his professional competence," presumably moral theology, but not at the Vatican-chartered graduate theology school. Curran pronounced the decision a "vindication of academic freedom in Catholic education." A senior Vatican official notes that Rome never required the school to "fire" Curran, but officialdom will surely seethe when the maverick resumes teaching at a high-profile Catholic campus...
...tenderly. Another memorable sequence shows the defendant's artist father, dressed only in a white loincloth, hanging by his wrists like the crucified Christ. It is one of several explicit religious images that portray the struggle of good against evil in a way that unfailingly identifies the latter with officialdom and the former with its victims. Lest the viewer miss this point, Varlam appears as the devil in one scene...
...would require doctrinal orthodoxy of theologians who teach at Catholic campuses. John Paul did not refer to that dispute, but boldly insisted that theologians need to work in unity with the Pope and bishops. "The fruits of their work," said he, "must ultimately be tested and validated" by church officialdom...
...school," he bragged. Gorbachev left no doubt that he prefers the company of generalists rather than specialists. Said he: "People with a broad outline are more to my liking." He also had a few words to say about opposition by Soviet bureaucrats to his reforms. Despite the efforts of officialdom's "encrusted layers," Gorbachev insisted, "the reorganization is proceeding in depth...
...Western youths took on officialdom, thousands of Chinese students marched in December in Hefei, Shanghai and other cities to protest the slow pace of the government's economic reforms and to press for political liberalization. Some demonstrators told Western reporters they had been motivated by televised reports of rallies in France, the Philippines and South Korea, where students have protested against government repression for years. Last year alone, South Korean students held more than 1,700 demonstrations, including a rally at Kon- kuk University in October at which 1,288 students were arrested. The death last month of Park Jong...