Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Premier's troubles with the Pope were not of her making-nor, for that matter, of his. The day before she was ushered through the Vatican's Gate of Bells and into the papal library. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon undiplomatically told a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem that Mrs. Meir was responding to an "official invitation." Mrs. Meir later emphasized that Israel had asked for the audience only after the Vatican had made it clear that the request would be answered favorably. "I didn't barge into the Vatican," she declared angrily...
...Woodstock's president, Teilhardian Scholar Christopher F. Mooney, points out that the school was received enthusiastically in New York's academic community. It retained such luminaries as Theologians Avery Dulles (son of John Foster Dulles) and Walter J. Burghardt (one of the two U.S. members of the papal Theological Commission). This year 130 students from Union Theological registered for Woodstock courses, and the school was building close alliances with Columbia University's history and religion departments...
...down by the 16th century Council of Trent. When Vatican II opened the doors to modern scholarship, especially biblical research, theologians were quick to seize their new opportunities. Within a few short years, some of them were questioning everything from the church's teachings on sexual ethics to papal infallibility -even such root doctrines as the nature of the Eucharist and the divinity of Jesus Christ...
...like Weimar. In a statement so oversimplified that it is blatantly false, he writes that Kissinger sees Nguven Van Thieu as a convenient ally not because he is reasonable but merely because he is compliant." Without supporting his view, he refutes Kissingers "linkage" theory with the equivalent of a Papal Bull. And it is even less reasonable to suppose that America's steadfastness in Southeast Asia measurably affects Washington's credibility in the European theater with the Soviet Union, or even with the West European allies from Europes vantage point the war is an exercise not in credibility...
...monk father with a back-country Bible thumper, and so on. Invention frequently flags, and there are great barren stretches of the movie that contain no contemporary parallels whatever, presumably because the scenario could invent no 20th century equivalents for the Saxons or the intrigues of the papal court under Leo, who is zestfully portrayed by Trevor Howard...